The Bookshop (2017)

Directed by

Isabel Coixet

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, Spain

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

6

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 464 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widow tries to open a bookshop in a small coastal English town in the 1950s. She faces resistance from local powerful people who do not want her to succeed.

gentlemelancholicslow-paceddeterminedunderstatedslightly tensecozy-adjacent

What happens

The Bookshop is a 2017 drama film written and directed by Isabel Coixet, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Penelope Fitzgerald, in which the lead character attempts against opposition to open a bookshop in the coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk (a thinly-disguised version of Southwold). Shooting took place in Portaferry and Strangford, County Down, Northern Ireland and in Barcelona during August and September 2016. The film stars Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Bill Nighy. It won three Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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