Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star as William and Agnes in what is both a moving meditation on loss and a slick weepie from director Chloé Zhao

Chloé Zhao’s film version of Maggie O’Farrell’s myth-making novel powerfully reimagines the agonising loss of a child as the source of Hamlet’s grand stage drama

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star as William and Agnes in what is both a moving meditation on loss and a slick weepie from director Chloé Zhao