'Hedda' Courtesy of TIFF Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment In a stately English mansion at some point in the 1950s, Hedda Gabler (Tessa Thompson) is shooting one of her guns. Before his death, her father, General Gabler, left them to her. She keeps the key to the gun box in a chain around her neck, close to her heart.