Hamnet [View all]

Saw a free screening last night of "Hamnet" based on the best-selling novel by Maggie O'Farrell with a talk back afterwards with O'Farrell.

Excellent movie. Hamnet was Shakespeare's son. The story is about Shakespeare's relationship with his wife and family and his growing career.

The movie is a little sluggish for the first half and then picks up. Quite a moving ending. I'm going to re-read the book to see how much the film differs from it. Afterwards, O'Farrell talked about as the author of the novel she had to let go of her need for everything to match the book exactly because she knew that screenplays have to work differently.

I'm not going to say what happened in the movie, except that the play Hamlet is based on his son Hamnet.