Oscar-Nominated Director Chloé Zhao on Making “Hamnet” and Coping With Creative Blocks

By Jessica Herndon Filmmaker Chloé Zhao has a singular way of channeling poetic and visceral energy, both on screen and off. It’s nearly impossible to watch Hamnet, her sweeping adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the love and grief that inspired William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and not wonder how she constructed such a stunning world that […] The post Oscar-Nominated Director Chloé Zhao on Making “Hamnet” and Coping With Creative Blocks first appeared on sundance.org.