“I think I have a very loose relationship with accuracy!” laughs Fiona Crombie, the Australian production designer whose new project Hamnet is gaining huge attention in the awards season. Adapted
Along with millions of readers, actress Jessie Buckley was enchanted by Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 best-seller about William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes, their son Hamnet dying, aged 11, from the
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… a finely calibrated work that will move and please audiences.
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The strength of the film is the sensitive playing between Mescal and O’Connor.
The ubiquitous Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor star in this love story, directed by Oliver Hermanus (Leaving).
The Scottish filmmaker and Jury President of the Bright Horizons award at the Melbourne International Film Festival looks back on the making of her acclaimed debut feature, and ponders what
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, Eternals) adapts Maggie O'Farrell's book of the same name, a fictional account of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his wife Agnes' grief after the death of their
When Thierry Fremaux announced the 2025 Cannes programme last month, he was aware that the festival had enjoyed huge successes in recent years, most notably in 2024 with Sean Baker’s
What were the biggest challenges of making a sequel to Gladiator? “One of the problems is producing a film that delivers on the expectation of a film that was initially
One of the few returning cast members from the 2000 film, the Danish actress explains the research she undertook for the role and how octogenarian Sir Ridley Scott still finds