🎬🕯️ What does grief create? - Hamnet (movie night + post‑film chat)

🎬🕯️ What does grief create? - Hamnet (movie night + post‑film chat)

We’ll watch together, then grab a drink/coffee after to compare notes.

Short summary :
Hamnet is one of those films that quietly wrecks you - not with big speeches, but with the slow weight of love and loss.
It’s built around a brutal question: when something unbearable happens to a family, what do people become - partners, strangers, survivors, ghosts?
And because it circles Shakespeare’s life, it also pokes at the uncomfortable idea that art can be born from pain. Is that beautiful… or creepy?
We’ll watch it together at Fifth Ave, then do the best part: a relaxed discussion right after while it’s still fresh.

What we’ll explore :

• What hit you hardest - and when? Was there a moment your chest actually tightened?

• Is this a story about grief… or about marriage under grief? Did you feel the couple moving toward each other or away from each other?

• Does the film make art feel like healing… or like escape? If someone turns loss into something “beautiful,” is that honoring it or rewriting it?

• Who did you empathize with most - and who did you judge? (Be honest. This is the fun part.)

• What did the movie make you think about memory? What we keep, what we delete, what we replay forever.

• Walking out question: did this make you feel more tender… or more afraid of loving anything?

How we’ll do it :

1. Meet in the lobby, grab tickets/snacks, sit near each other

2. Watch the movie

3. Walk to a nearby spot after and talk for ~45 minutes (spoilers obviously)

When and where :

Sat, January 31 - showtime 7:10 PM

Fifth Avenue Cinemas (2110 Burrard St) - 19+

I’ll aim to be there by 7:00 PM so we can find each other and settle in.

Cap 12–15 + waitlist
If it fills, join the waitlist - we can still sit near each other even if a few people join late.

Tickets
Buy your own ticket from https://www.cineplex.com/theatre/fifth-avenue-cinemas-age-restricted-19