{"id":204122,"date":"2025-11-28T03:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:15:11","slug":"hamnet-the-secret-agent-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/204122\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hamnet’, ‘The Secret Agent’, ‘Eternity’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTIFF People\u2019s Choice Award Winner Hamnet<\/a><\/strong>, Cannes-decorated The Secret Agent<\/a><\/strong> and afterlife romcom Eternity<\/a><\/strong> have settled into theaters for the Thanksgiving frame with Friday set to usher in another wave \u2014 from Benedict Cumberbatch in The Thing With Feathers<\/a><\/strong> and smaller indies like buzzy Sundance documentaries BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions<\/strong> and Teenage Wasteland<\/a><\/strong>, <\/strong>a tribute to late songwriter John Prine, and Venice-premiering The Tale of Silyan<\/a>. <\/strong>It\u2019s crowded out there with Zootopia 2 and Wicked: For Good.<\/p>\n

\n\tChlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Hamnet<\/strong> from Focus Features, winner of the TIFF People\u2019s Choice Award and the Audience Award at BFI London, is playing 100 locations ahead of a moderate expansion December 5. Adapted from Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s New York Times best-selling novel, Oscar-winner Zhao co-wrote the screen adaptation with O\u2019Farrell and served as co-editor of the film. Stars Jessie Buckley as Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare, and Paul Mescal as The Bard in a story of love and loss that sees Shakespeare channel his grief at the death of his 11-year-old son, Hamnet, into the creation of his most famous play, Hamlet. In his day, the two names were interchangeable. It\u2019s a rare look at Shakespeare as a flesh and blood person whose literary genius and domestic life were intertwined. Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh at 87%. See Deadline\u2019s review<\/a>, where, says Pete Hammond, the \u201ctwo stars and director achieving new heights of their talents, knocked me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLeading up to the film\u2019s release, Focus hosted a Book Crawl across four beloved LA independent bookstores where new readers and longtime fans turned out to meet O\u2019Farrell and the new film edition of the novel, including at a standing-room-only Q&A with Zhao moderated by Dennis Lehane. The distributor also partnered with The Main Street Flower Truck and Brownstone Botanical for surprise flower truck pop-ups in LA and NYC offering Hamnet-inspirited bouquets and custom stationary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon\u2019s The Secret Agent<\/strong> from writer-director Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho opened in limited release in New York at Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Angelika. The Brazilian political thriller was the most awarded film at Cannes this year where it premiered in Competition, winning Best Director, Best Actor for star Wagner Moura, and the FIPRESCI International Film Critics Award. Brazil\u2019s official Oscar submission also screened at Telluride, TIFF and the New York Film Festival with Moura collecting awards at Zurich (Golden Eye), Chicago (Best Actor) and Newport Beach (Best Actor). The film is nominated for Gotham Awards for Best Lead Performance for Moura and Best Original Screenplay; shortlisted at the Critics Choice Awards for Best Casting\/Ensemble and Best Costumes; and nominated for Best International Film at the British Independent Film Awards. It\u2019s RT Certified Fresh at 99%, and 87% on Metacritic (Must-See), Deadline review here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tSet in 1977 Brazil during the country\u2019s military dictatorship, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is far from the safe haven he was expecting.<\/p>\n

\n\tExpands to LA Dec. 5 with AMC Century City hosting Q&As with Moura and Filho, followed by a slow rollout through December.<\/p>\n

\n\tA24 romantic comedy Eternity<\/strong> by David Freyne, written with Pat Cunnane, opens on just under 1,500 screens. Premiered at TIFF, see Deadline review<\/a>. Stars Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner in an afterlife love triangle where souls have one week to decide where, and with whom, to spend eternity. Joan (Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Teller) and her first love (Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive. <\/p>\n

\n\tWith Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph, John Early and Olga Merediz. Eternity was at the top of films ever tested by A24, which held regional word-of-mouth screenings across the country in partnership with organizations from AARP to Bucketlisters and TripAdvisor.<\/p>\n

\n\tStarting Friday<\/strong>: Briarcliff\u00a0Entertainment will release drama-horror\u00a0The Thing With Feathers <\/strong>at\u00a0400 theaters. The debut narrative film by Dylan Southern, an adaptation of the Max Porter novella\u00a0Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, premiered at Sundance and Berlin (see Deadline review<\/a>). It stars Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a>,\u00a0alongside Richard Boxall and Henry Boxall, as a widower left to raise two young sons after the unexpected death of his wife. He finds his life is unraveling from grief, which takes the form of a unwanted houseguest \u2014 a man-like crow (voiced by David Thewlis) seemingly brought to life from the father\u2019s work as an illustrator \u2014 that taunts him from the shadows.<\/p>\n

\n\tPicturehouse will debut documentary The Tale of Silyan<\/strong>, North Macedonia\u2019s Venice and TIFF-premiering submission for International Feature, at the IFC Center in New York. Q&As Friday and Saturday with director Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland) and cinematographer Jean Dakar. The story of a white stork, Silyan, and a farmer, Nikola, whose lives intertwine when Nikola, abandoned by his family, saves the injured bird from a landfill. As man and bird bond, they find solace and companionship in each other\u2019s solitude. At 100% on RT off 21 reviews. Concordia Studio\u2019s Davis Guggenheim\u00a0(An Inconvenient Truth) is a producer. Expands to two screens in LA next weekend and another 15 on Dec. 12. \u00a0 <\/p>\n

\n\tDocumentary Teenage Wasteland <\/strong>opens at the Film Forum in New York. The theater booked directly with the filmmakers Jesse Moss and\u00a0Amanda McBaine (Boys State, Girls State). A high school assignment goes full-on activist when English teacher Fred Isseks sends students, armed with video recorders, on an investigative assignment to suss out the brown muck surfacing at the local dump in their upstate New York town. The toxicity they discover lives not only in the landfill, but in political corruption and environmental injustice in their community. Thirty years later, they revisit their film and confront the legacy of this transformative experience in the doc that includes archival footage of their 1996 class project, Garbage, Gangsters, and Greed, outtakes, diaries, and interviews. At 100% on RT off 26 reviews. Premiered at Sundance under its previous Middletown.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatermelon Pictures has set early access weekend screenings of TIFF-premiering historical drama Palestine 36<\/a><\/strong> at about 50 locations this weekend timed to International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People on Saturday (and ahead of shortlist voting Dec. 8). Written and directed by Annemarie Jacir, the film is set in 1936 Palestine as villages rise against British colonial rule. Stars Karim Daoud Anaya as Yusuf, a young man from the countryside working as a chauffeur in Jerusalem who longs for a future beyond the growing unrest. But with rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain\u2019s 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision. With Jeremy Irons as British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope. At 100% with RT critics on 24 reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tRich Spirit debuts Sundance and Berlin-premiering BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions<\/strong>, the debut feature from artist and filmmaker\u00a0Kahlil Joseph<\/a>, at nine locations including the Lumiere Cinema in LA and IFC in New York through Dec. 3. Adapted from his renowned video art installation from the 2019 Venice Biennale, the film (at 100% on RT off 17 reviews) is described as \u201ca distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph\u2019s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.\u201d Beyond installation works, Joseph, is known for music videos for Kendrick Lamar, Sampha, Flying Lotus, Beyonc\u00e9 and others. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAftershock: The Nicole Bell Story<\/a><\/strong> from Faith Media Distribution opens on about 200 screens. In a tragic incident that sparked national outrage, unarmed 23-year-old\u00a0Sean Bell\u00a0was fatally shot by undercover\u00a0NYPD officers\u00a0just hours before his wedding. The barrage of 50 bullets that ended his life became a defining moment in the fight for police accountability and reform. Told through the eyes of his fianc\u00e9e\u00a0Nicole Paultre Bell, the film chronicles her determination to transform unimaginable pain into purpose and a call for change. The directorial debut of Alesia \u201cZ\u201d Glidewell,\u00a0who wrote the screenplay with Cas Sigers, stars Rayven Ferrell as Nicole Paultre Bell,\u00a0Bentley\u00a0Green as Sean Bell and Richard Lawson as Al Sharpton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAbramorama will play You Got Gold: A Celebration Of John Prine<\/a><\/strong>, a tribute concert film honoring the late songwriter, at the Quad in NYC including a Q&A Saturday with Prine\u2019s widow and producer on the project, Fiona Whelan Prine. Director Michael John Warren melds an October 2022 tribute concert at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium honoring Prine\u2019s legacy with performances and behind-the-scenes stories with family, friends, and artists Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Isbell and Bob Weir to celebrate his life and music. Prine passed away in 2020 due to complications from Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TIFF People\u2019s Choice Award Winner Hamnet, Cannes-decorated The Secret Agent and afterlife romcom Eternity have settled into theaters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[112324,112325,18,117,82433,25885,19,17,327,112326,15693,112327,112328,112329,62309,112330],"class_list":{"0":"post-204122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aftershock-the-nicole-bell-story","9":"tag-blknws-terms-conditions","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-eternity","13":"tag-hamnet","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-palestine-36","18":"tag-specialty-preview","19":"tag-teenage-wasteland","20":"tag-the-secret-agent","21":"tag-the-tale-of-silyan","22":"tag-the-thing-with-feathers","23":"tag-you-got-gold-a-celebration-of-john-prine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}