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The Bookshop Florence Green, 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. 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 ...
Feb 16, 2018 · Music: Alfonso de Vilallonga. With: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson , Honor Kneafsey, James Lance, Reg Wilson, Michael Fitzgerald, Hunter Tremayne, Frances Barber, Nigel O'Neill ...
Aug 23, 2018 · Aug. 23, 2018 12 PM PT. “The Bookshop,” based on the 1978 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, is a far more somber, measured outing than its quaint and cozy title may at first imply. Within its ...
Still, The Bookshop is slow in parts, and the plot is far from the typical underdog story. Were this an American production, the end would no doubt be considerably more upbeat. But this European film (English setting, Spanish director) doesn't offer any pat happily ever afters.
The Bookshop is a pleasant film littered with stretches of what feel like interminable fluff. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020. Steven Prokopy Third Coast Review. The Bookshop is ...
Aug 28, 2018 · Mostly, “The Bookshop” is a pretext to watch three great actors do their thing: Mortimer, as the film’s mousy but surprisingly formidable heroine; Clarkson, as her smiling adversary, Violet ...
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer, Mary Poppins Returns) follows her lifelong dream by opening a bookshop in a conservative coastal town. While bringing about a cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects) and the support of a reclusive ...
