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The Bookshop
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Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of the same name; 'The Bookshop' is set in 1959, Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), a free spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop - the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. Fighting damp, cold and considerable local apathy she struggles to establish herself but soon her fortunes change for the better. By exposing the narrow minded local townsfolk to the best literature of the day including Nabokov's scandalizing 'Lolita' and Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451', she opens their eyes thereby causing a cultural awakening in a town which has not changed for centuries. Her activities bring her a kindred spirit and ally in the figure of Mr Brundish (Bill Nighy) who is himself sick of the town's stale atmosphere. But this mini social revolution soon brings her fierce enemies: she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers and also crosses Mrs. Gamart (Patricia Clarkson...
Genre:
Drama
Actors:
Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, Hunter Tremayne, Honor Kneafsey, James Lance, Frances Barber, Reg Wilson, Michael Fitzgerald, Lucy Beckwith, Nigel ONeill, ...»
Director:
Isabel Coixet
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Times (UK)
February 16, 2018 It doesn't help that the film is pulverised by wall-to-wall narration.
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EscribiendoCine
April 11, 2018 The director appeals to classicism with constant conversations between her characters, subtle dialogues and stagings that affect the tranquility of this time and space of this place... [Full Review in Spanish]
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Screen International
February 19, 2018 Ironically, given the subject, the script is stilted, with actors often stuck on pause and not even the silver-tongued Nighy able to coax more than a laugh or two from his lines.
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Hollywood Reporter
November 20, 2017 Its subversive undercurrent, embodied in fine performances by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy, is what makes it really interesting.
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Clarín
April 17, 2018 The Catalan director [Isabel Coixet] tells the story, which takes place at the end of the '50s, without bombast, and with a sober, but romantic style. [Full review in Spanish]
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Urban Cinefile
May 02, 2018 Lovers of books and admirers of determination will embrace this enchanting film. I hope you will enjoy it, too.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
February 19, 2018 Coixet's script is a long way off perfect, but it's the least of her problems; the second least is the film's dirge of a score, but even that's a bummer.
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Variety
February 16, 2018 A fine, sensitive leading turn from Emily Mortimer helps shore up these quiet, lightly dust-covered proceedings, but can't quite put "The Bookshop" in the black.
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Stuff.co.nz
May 17, 2018 The Bookshop ends up as a fine advertisement for its namesake. Buy the book and stay home.
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Sight and Sound
February 19, 2018 Coixet's comfortable approach to Fitzgerald's material rarely rises above a simmer, favouring polite conversations laced with passive-aggressive intent.
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Otroscines.com
April 16, 2018 An elegant story, precise and overcoming, though at times also a bit obvious. [Full Review in Spanish]
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IMDb: 7
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