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Movies 101

"Hamnet" & "Sentimental Value"

From Left: Jessie Buckley and Joe Alwyn in the 2025 film Hamnet; Stellan Skarsgård in the 2025 film Sentimental Value.
From Left: Jessie Buckley and Joe Alwyn in Hamnet (2025); Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value (2025).

Few things in life are more powerful, or painful, than the relationship between parent and child. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that explore such relationships. The first is Hamnet, writer-director Chloë Zhao’s imagining of the genesis of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. The second is Sentimental Value, Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier’s study of a woman’s strained connection with her father.