Chloe Zhao Tackles Shakespeare's True Tragedy In 'Hamnet'

Fuente: International Business Times

Based on the novel by Maggie O'Farrell, Chloe Zhao's 'Hamnet' colors in the gaps of the little we know about William Shakespeare's family life AFP When Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao first studied Shakespeare at her British boarding school, the young Chinese pupil did not even speak English. So it has been a long journey to her latest film "Hamnet," a poetic period drama that speculates on the life story of William Shakespeare himself, and is an early Academy Award frontrunner. "It was so hard," she told AFP, of her school days.