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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Hamnet' - To weep, or not to weep

The multi-Oscar nominated Hamnet is a moving ode to agonising loss and the possibility that healing can come through art. But you may find the emotions so signposted that your heartstrings feel more yanked than tugged.

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00:00is it true you know everything about a person by touching them here not everything
00:22he's got more inside of him than any man i've ever met who are you looking for william shakespeare
00:30i have no talent awaiting
00:36the women in my family see things what do you see
00:43i see landscape oceans you're having twins my girl undiscovered countries
00:51what do you wish to do hamlet i shall be one of father's players will you be brave yes will you
00:58be brave it's my chosen reality now i think this is how we got this play i think there's no wonder
01:05that like the only facts that we know about his life is that he was married he had three children
01:13one of them died and that son's name was called hamlet and then he wrote hamlet i don't think
01:17that's a coincidence and i think like oftentimes out of great pain and suffering comes great art
01:21and i think this is an example of that when shall we three meet again our children's heart beat they
01:29smile play
01:33never forget for a moment
01:38mama they may be gone mama my boy he lives not
01:45you should go to london that place in your head is now more real to you than anywhere else i am myself
01:55i am myself indifferent on it again do you not wonder what is in it in what the play
02:02what shall i do keep your heart open to die to sleep perchance to dream what do you see
02:32you
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