Giunti Odeon presents Hamnet, the extraordinary film directed by Chloé Zhao (the director who won an Oscar in 2021 for Nomadland) starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress. In a wood, a young woman sleeps curled up in a cradle formed by the exposed roots of an ancient tree: she is dressed in deep red, accompanied by a falcon that answers her calls; she knows herbs and potions, and it is said she was not born of her mother but of a woman who came from afar. Her name is Agnes, and when Will sees her, he falls in love with her immediately. Will is the young William Shakespeare, who manages to marry her despite the hostility of their families and to have three children with her: Susannah and the twins Judith and Hamnet. But tragedy strikes while the playwright is already working in London, and Hamnet becomes Hamlet. Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, this is the story of Agnes (rather than William’s), woven with magic and femininity.