J‘ai vu #Hamnet, une agréable surprise, comme j‘avais trouvé #Nomadland beaucoup trop lice par rapport à l’enquête de Jessica #Bruder. C‘est très fin (si je fais abstraction de plages musicales appairées et redondantes) et ça donne envie de lire aussi le roman de Maggie O'Farrell. Et justement, comme je suis en train de lire un autre roman qui s‘appuie sur Hamlet, Isabelle #Hammad, enter #ghost - traduit en français par Josée #Kamoun : #Hamlet le long du mur, je vous propose un petit extrait, la narratrice, Sonia, palestinienne de l’intérieur, actrice, vivant à #Londres, de retour à #Haïfa, se laisse entraîner à jouer #Gertrude dans une mise en scène à #Ramallah. En même temps, des souvenirs familiaux reviennent et elle a beaucoup de questions à poser à son père, vivant également à Londres, elle l‘a au téléphone depuis Ramallah (petit détail pour comprendre, la maison familiale de Haïfa n‘a pas été confisquée, mais vendue par son oncle, resté sur place, qui voulait s‘installer en #Cisjordanie. BTW, dans ce roman on peut comprendre toute la complexité de la communauté palestinienne éclatée partout dans le monde jusqu‘en #Israël même)

« I looked through the window at the garden. ‘Baba?’
‘Yes?’
‘I’m feeling quite sad at the moment.’
‘Don’t be sad.’
‘It’s hard here. The atmosphere is, it’s heavy.’
He chewed, slurped. ‘It’s complicated.’
‘It’s not complicated.’
‘Okay,’ he said, like he was admitting defeat. It was the same tone he used when I was a child if I ever challenged him. He closed down the discussion immediately by pretending he was letting me win.
‘Can I ask you?’
‘What.’
‘What you did in the seventies.’
He gave a sigh that approached a groan.
‘Does ­Haneen—’
‘Not on the phone. 
‚Okay. Well, will you tell me . . . something else, will you tell me about your childhood?’
‘Sonia.’ Then, relenting: ‘What do you want to know?’
Laundry swayed on the line. A bird stepped on the lawn and took flight, aiming at a tree.
‘Will you tell me when you realised what was happening?’
He was moving around: I pictured him getting out of his chair, walking across the room. Lowering himself onto the couch. ‘Listen.’ He paused. ‘It wasn’t until I left Palestine that I really knew Palestine.’
‘What does that mean?’
‘Just wait for me to finish. Listen.’
Silence. I waited.
‘I was born into it,’ he said finally. ‘Okay? I was born a few months before the Nakba. You know this. You know what it means? It means it was already my reality. I didn’t know what it was before. Teta and Jiddo didn’t talk about it. And I didn’t ask.’
‘Did they talk to you about collaborators?’
‘What? What has collaboration to do with it? We didn’t talk about any of it, like I told you. There are no collaborators in my family.’
‘I wasn’t suggesting.’
‘We are a good family. My ­great-­uncle fought with Qawuqji.‘

« I know that.’
‘We are good stock, we weren’t these elite, y‘ani . . . Okay?’
‘Baba, I know, that’s not what I was saying.’
‘Okay. So, as you know, I went to boarding school in Nazareth when I was nine years old.’
I wasn’t sure I had known that, but I didn’t want to interrupt him.
‘I remember, we have to get a permit to move to Nazareth from the military governor. I couldn’t believe that. I said I am going to school. Why the permit? And slowly, slowly, I started grasping it.’
‘When you were nine years old?’
‘Maybe, no, not nine years old. Maybe a little older. But I grasped it. And I didn’t like it. Later, you know, they changed our residence to Nazareth, in the school. And the school started, at the end of every month, getting permits to allow us to come to see our parents. So, slowly, slowly, I started to feel the Israeli persecution and mistreatment of us, of the Arabs.’ He cleared his throat. ‘And then, slowly, slowly, I started grasping the reality. You see? Workers can’t go to their work without a permit. People can’t develop their lives without a permit. And later, by the time I went to Beirut, I was already completely politicised. In a sense. I graduated from the high school as a young, politicised, conscious student. So, when military rule ended I was nineteen. Right? I was a . . . a . . . I joined the party when I was sixteen.’
‘Right.’
‘In nineteen ­sixty-­seven I stayed. Okay? Then, after the census, an Anglican priest smuggled me across the Naqoura border to Lebanon, and I spent four years in Beirut.’
‘What? Did you just say a priest smuggled you?’
‘What I’m telling you is, in Lebanon I really understood. Because it began then, the movement, properly. The movement outside. And I saw the refugees. I didn’t see refugees before, you know? Not like this. And I saw the people, active. Before nineteen ­sixty-­seven there was no . . . Up to nineteen ­sixty-­seven the name even vanished from the UN.’
‘You can say Palestine.’
‘Mm.’
‘You said it a few minutes ago. 

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‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Chloé Zhao on How Her Post-‘Eternals’ “Mid-Life Crisis” Paved the Way for ‘Hamnet’
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#Movies

I just watched #Hamnet (2025) at my local #AMC.

Hamnet is an emotionally powerful movie which suggests that #Shakespeare was inspired to write #Hamlet in memory of his son who died 4 years earlier. There is no proof that this is actually the case but it is a inventive twist on the story of his relationship with his wife, how they may have dealt with the death of their son & how it may have affected their relationship.

Hamnet was directed by #ChloeZhao. Zhao previously directed #Nomadland (2020) which won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Zhao) & Best Actress (Frances McDormand) in 2021

Hamnet is nominated for 8 Oscars in 2026 for Best Picture, Best Director (Zhao), Best Actress (#JessieBuckley), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Casting, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design & Best Production Design.

I don't normally like performances of Shakespeare's plays (I find it hard to understand the language) but I enjoyed those parts of Hamlet performed in this movie. I'd rate it 7 out of 10.

"Nomadland" (2020) depicts a live of Fern, a Usonian woman living a nomadic live: she's movie in her van adjusted to living through the U.S., catching seasonal jobs, from Amazon during the Christmas frenzy, to beet root plant. The movie feels like a half-documentary, and for a good reason: nomads that Fern meets in her journey are real people playing themselves. It starts with a premise of a downer, but ends up to be a very heartwarming and touching story. Plus marvellous landscapes.

#Nomadland

Dome Rock; 14 day free #dispersed camping right off of Interstate 10, right before it intersects with AZ 95.

#vanlifeusa #snowbird #desertlife #HomeIsWhereYouParkIt #arizona #mojavedesert #bureauoflandmanagement #publicland #camping #nomadland #nomadlife #nomadlifestyle