“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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… there’s more talk than action and the language is beautifully and often cleverly crafted.
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
The “lost decade”
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… profoundly moving performances from real people who never thought they’d be out in the world, much less, on the world-stage.
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A complicated, emotionally honest film with a lot of heart …
… there is more to do with love than hate in Anyone but You, and definitely more for audiences to enjoy than dislike.
Stephen Vagg looks at the 1964 Australian TV special, which runs for, well, half an hour and stars, you guessed it, Robert Helpmann.