Hamnet

"An arm's length away, perhaps two, is Hamlet, her Hamlet, as he might have been, had he lived, and the ghost, who has her husband's hands, her husband's beard, who speaks in her husband's voice. She stretches out a hand, as if to acknowledge them, as if to feel the air between the three of them, as if wishing to pierce the boundary between audience and players, between real life and play." Even several years after reading Maggie O'Farrell's "Hamnet" I still think about the book and that final scene where everything comes full circle. It made me cry back then and, like many people in the audience of the AMC Pacific Place that saw this moment come to life on the screen, it makes me cry now. This movie and everyone involved in it, especially Jessie Buckley, deserve all the praise possible. Book adaptations can be so difficult and Chloé Zhao directed this one absolutely beautifully.