Chloé Zhao returns to the big screen this year with Hamnet , a fictionalized story about William Shakespeare's life that takes a distinctly different route than the Academy Award-winning 1998 film Shakespeare in Love . After releasing Hamnet 's first trailer , the film has already distinguished itself as a major one to watch going into award season.

In addition to a strong creative voice behind the project, Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star in Hamnet as William and Agnes Shakespeare, respectively. Confronting very real issues of early death and grief in 16th-century England, and constructing a narrative around Shakespeare's son Hamnet dying as a child, the film looks to be something with great emotional weight.

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