Based on Lisa Klein’s 2006 Y.A. novel, Ophelia shifts the spotlight from Hamlet to his love interest
is set in the 14th century; it premiered at Sundance in January 2018. Yet this Shakespeare-inspired film also has a chilling resonance with the past few months—particularly as lawmakers across the country have passed bills further restricting access to abortion.shifts the spotlight from Hamlet to his love interest; to Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude; and to Mechtild, a new character invented by Klein and expanded in the film.
“I wanted to take these characters who have been marginalized and move them central stage, sort of literally,” screenwritersaid in an interview. “I think there’s a huge appeal in that, because there’s a big hunger for stories we haven’t heard before, or angles that haven’t come up in stories from before. Many of those offstage characters become the determining players in this version.”
Mechtild, one of those key players, is an herbalist; in Klein’s book, Ophelia becomes her apprentice, during which she hones the expertise in flowers she displays in the original play. At one point Mechtild gives Ophelia a potion that “mimics death but mocks it”—enabling Ophelia to fake a suicide and survive beyond the “muddy death” that is her end in Shakespeare’s telling.gave Mechtild a deeper backstory that weaves her fate more closely to the events of’s Ophelia.
The expansion of Mechtild’s story line enabled the filmmakers to bring in “some kinds of flirtations with other Shakespearean undertones,” McCarthy said. “There’s a little bit of a nod to’s witches, and there’s sort of Gothic foreboding.” The comparison to the Scottish play also evokes Lady Macbeth, whose dialogue suggests that she lost an infant child once as well.
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