“ Hamnet ” co-editor Affonso Gonçalves was in a unique position when he started work on the film.

Director Chloé Zhao had already completed the first cut. “I came in, I watched the first cut, and because Chloé was away at that time, I watched all the footage, and I kept watching all the footage,” Gonçalves says. He began to rearrange and refine some scenes. He says, “The one thing we agreed on, if possible, was to bring more of the family into it.”

Based on Maggie O’ Farrell’s book, the film follows William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), who is in the midst of writing his latest play. He finds love with Agnes (Jessie Buckley) but also experiences grief when his young son, Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe), succumbs to the plague. The story of love, loss and grief lead to him writing his tragedy “Hamlet

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