HAMNET: What Stops You From “Living with Your Heart Open”

Agnes and Will didn’t have easy childhoods. In Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. … If not for the hawk, the forest, what her mom taught her, and her biological brother, Bartholomew, Agnes might have shut down to living in the real world and to Will’s love, completely. Bartholomew reminds her of their mother’s wisdom: “To live with our hearts open.” Yet, more loss and misunderstandings can close up your heart again.