Sunday 18 January 2026
(watched, at the theater 🍿)
This movie got me curious about whether it was accurate from a biographical standpoint. My research indicates that besides factuals (birth, marriage, whereabouts, etc), very little is known about Shakespeare's life. Maggie O'Farrell's novel (which the movie is adapted from) is therefore a work of imagination filling in the gaps of what could have been the significance of Hamlet for the English writer.
This is all fine be me, especially when it results in such a fantastic movie.
I feel guilty having criticized Paul Mescal's casting in Gladiator II when I didn't know his talent. Jessie Buckley is excellent too. Together they form the very touching duo which constitutes the base of this tragedy. The cinematography, the music, the story just locked me totally, culminating to this powerfully emotional ending.
This is the first time I heard someone literally sob in a theater. I wasn't far from it myself.
This movie got me curious about whether it was accurate from a biographical standpoint. My research indicates that besides factuals (birth, marriage, whereabouts, etc), very little is known about Shakespeare's life. Maggie O'Farrell's novel (which the movie is adapted from) is therefore a work of imagination filling in the gaps of what could have been the significance of Hamlet for the English writer.
This is all fine be me, especially when it results in such a fantastic movie.
I feel guilty having criticized Paul Mescal's casting in Gladiator II when I didn't know his talent. Jessie Buckley is excellent too. Together they form the very touching duo which constitutes the base of this tragedy. The cinematography, the music, the story just locked me totally, culminating to this powerfully emotional ending.
This is the first time I heard someone literally sob in a theater. I wasn't far from it myself.