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Total Film
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Amy West

Hideo Kojima reckons Eternals director Chloe Zhao "must be a witch" after being blown away by her new Oscar-nominated drama: "Has the power to rewrite cinema"

Jessie Buckley as Agnes in Hamnet.

Everyone's favorite film critic Hideo Kojima has nothing but praise for Chloé Zhao's new drama Hamnet. He was so blown away by it, in fact, he reckons the Eternals director "must be a witch" to be able to craft such a spell-binding, heartwrenching film.

"I watched Hamnet at a screening," he recently took to social media to reveal. "In just 126 minutes, it encapsulates all the sorrow, pain, loss, fear, love and joy, healing and hope found in life across all times and cultures. That beautiful final scene has the power to rewrite the history of cinema. It lays bare the miracle of movies. To be able to create something like this, Chloé Zhao must be a witch, or perhaps an angel."

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