Chloé Zhao emerges from her cave — her words, not mine — with “Hamnet.”
It’s a film that feels less like a period drama and more like a spiritual excavation. The co-writer and director, who spent a decade traversing America for her first three features before winning an Oscar for “Nomadland” (2020), has created something that operates on a frequency beyond traditional narrative filmmaking. It’s a dangerous kind of vulnerability, and Zhao knows it.
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“We’re experiencing our tools to bring us to the present moment, moment by moment,” Zhao explains, her words tumbling out in the associative way of someone
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