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Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, adapted from the novel by Maggie O’Farrell, is a stunning and introspective story about passages, transfiguration, and the tug of war between male and female spirituality. It begins in a forest, where Agnes Hathaway (Jessie Buckley) curls up at the base of a huge, primeval tree with a dark tunnel leading to the underworld, or so it seems. (more…)