Memphis Movies This Week: Oscar contender ‘Hamnet’ and a super-sized ‘Kill Bill’
Jessie Buckley, center, stars in "Hamnet." (Courtesy Focus Features)
Oscar scouts will welcome a sure thing onto local screens this week with “Hamnet,” which opens exclusively at Ridgeway Cinema Grill.
A top contender for Best Picture and the current favorite for Best Actress (Jessie Buckley), it’s adapted from a terrific 2020 novel by Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell.
The book is a highly speculative piece of fiction about William Shakespeare, wife Anne (Agnes) Hathaway and the death of their young son Hamnet, an event some believe was a direct influence on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
It’s telling that the book was subtitled “A Novel of the Plague,” while the official site for the movie describes it as “the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, ‘Hamlet.’”
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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