You need someone to have recorded it from different microphones, and piece it together, in order to understand it.
I agree but I think the cut parts should be the extended escape from the Schloß Adler where they manage to kill half the German army with a couple machine guns and pluck.
But I love the whole “no one is who they appear” bit that was in a lot of Allistar MacClean movies, like Breakheart Pass and to some extend Guns of Navarone and Ice Station Zebra.
That’s why I say the book may be better. It was perhaps too cerebral for a Clint Eastwood action film. Even when the double agents are revealed I don’t think Clint understands or cares, his character sure didn’t.
I just saw this and fully agree with this well written review. It’s up for Oscars for Best Picture, Chloe Zhao for Best Director, and Jessie Buckley for Best Actress, and deserves all three. It’s probably up for a bunch of lesser Oscars, too. Unfortunately Paul Mescal didn’t get a nomination. Very moving and highly recommended.
Yes, it’s also up for Casting, Production Design, Costume Design, Music, and Writing.
Casting, Costume Design, and Music are gimmes.
Greenland Migration (2026). This is the sequel to Greenland (2020). I quite enjoyed the original because it was unexpectedly original, with good special effects. The sequel isn’t bad, but disappointing. The story in the original is about a family trying to make their way to safety as a large fragmented comet heads toward the earth. On their travels, pretty much everything bad that could possibly happen to them does happen.
The sequel picks up five years later, after most of the earth has been destroyed, when they embark on yet another set of travels to try to find a hospitable place to live. And sure enough, everything bad that could possibly happen to them does happen! I guess it completes the story but most of it is kind of an unimaginative rehash of the original.
A Theory that Shakespeare was a nom de plume for Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was popular in the 80’s. It was discussed and ultimately dismissed in my College Literature I class.
It was scientific details in the Shakespeare plays that drew attention towards Bacon.
They were contemporaries. Shakespeare estimated dates are 23 April 1564 [b] - 23 April 1616).
I’m curious if Shakespeare’s interest in Science and Medicine is shown as an interest of study in the Hamnet film.
That’s not the “historical accuracy” in question. It’s just that little is known of Shakespeare’s private life, so a lot of stuff had to be imagined. I was surprised to learn that Shakespeare really did have two daughters and a son named Hamnet, and that Hamnet died at the age of 11 of a cause that isn’t recorded. In the movie, Hamnet dies of “pestilence” which is probably meant to imply the bubonic plague, of which there were five major outbreaks in Shakespeare’s time (six if you count the one the year he was born).
Probably the biggest fiction in Hamnet was the idea of a strong connection between the play Hamlet and the death of Shakespeare’s son. While there may have been incidental connections exploring the theme of loss and grief, it’s generally accepted that the Hamlet story is derived from old folklore, most notably the 9th century Scandinavian folk tale of Amleth.
At the beginning of Hamnet, a title card informs us that at the time, Hamlet and Hamnet were the same name. Se even if the Hamlet story is based on folklore, there’s almost certainly some connection there (why else did he use that name?).
Yeah. While I thought it was an excellent film, the big emotional catharsis – that Hamlet somehow related to loss and grief, and provided closure for Will and Agnes – seemed really a stretch.
Yes, for the time, Hamnet and Hamlet were identical (either Shakespeare himself or his publishers spelled his last name half a dozen different ways). And it turns out that “Agnes” and “Anne” were also considered interchangeable in Elizabethan times, and the writers chose to use “Agnes Hathaway” rather than “Anne” because “Agnes” was the way the name was recorded in some official document, somebody’s will, I think.
But note also the similarity between “Amleth” and “Hamlet”. I think it’s fair to say that the play contains elements reflective of Shakespeare’s emotions at the time of the loss of his son, but the story is really about something else entirely.
The story, yes, but the idea in the novel and movie that he was dealing with the loss in writing the play is at least plausible. (And, BTW, the movie Hamnet reminds me of the earlier movie Shakespeare in Love, in that both imagine how events in his life might have led to his writing these plays.)
Yes, her father’s will lists her as “Agnes”.
Did anyone else hear her name pronounced in the film, with the “gn” as in “lasagna”? So, something like “Añez”?
To win!? No they’re not. Sinners is the odds on favorite to win Casting and Music by a huge amount, and Frankenstein is the overwhelming choice for Costume.
Sorry. That was very un-Doper-like of me. I haven’t seen the other movies.
I just really like Hamnet.
Or because it may decrease the number of viewers like me who find themselves thinking, “Why didn’t they have Anne Hathaway play Anne Hathaway?”.
Yes, it definitely was, and it confused me!
Of all the unlikely precursors, it was the 2018 series 3 finale of the Ben Elton parody-comedy Upstart Crow (starring comedian David Mitchell as Shakespeare) that explored this aspect of Shakespeare’s life and work some years back.
The Passenger (2023). A Blumhouse in which a fast food worker guns down all of his co-workers but one, and then takes that last one not as a hostage, but as a sort of crazed improvement project. One of those that I won’t recommend because of the strange plotline, but which we enjoyed quite a bit.
Watched Harold & Maude last night, in honor of the passing of Bud Cort. Not a particularly good movie, but quirky and interesting enough for a single watch. Way too much Cat Stevens.