Bookshop
Emily Mortimer plays the quietly heroic shop owner at the heart of this fascinating Penelope Fitzgerald adaptation.
The Bookshop
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.
Genre
Drama,
Women and Film
Runtime
113
Language
English
Director
Isabel Coixet
Cast
Emily Mortimer,
Bill Nighy,
Patricia Clarkson,
Hunter Tremayne,
Honor Kneafsey
FEATURED REVIEW
April Wolfe, Village Voice
My deepest pleasure when watching 'The Great British Baking Show' is trying to spot the nearly imperceptible sneer, or the eye roll tamed at the last second, or any case of contestants fighting to hide their actual emotions. To an American like me, the essence of Britishness isn’t what’s said but ...
Played at
Town Center 5 8.31.18 - 9.20.18
Glendale 8.31.18 - 9.13.18
Playhouse 7 8.31.18 - 9.20.18
Monica Film Center 9.07.18 - 9.13.18
Claremont 5 9.07.18 - 9.20.18
Lumiere Music Hall 9.14.18 - 9.20.18
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