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Movie Review: Jessie Buckley startles and shimmers in ‘Hamnet,’ a meditation on love, loss and art
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This image released by Focus Features shows Jessie Buckley, left, and Paul Mescal in a scene from "Hamnet." - photo by Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features via AP
“Tell me a story,” the earthy young woman asks the shy Latin tutor early in Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet.” What story, he asks? “Something that moves you.” She’s made a shrewd choice of storyteller. This awkward young man seems to have a way with words as he recounts the tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.