The Bookshop

(2017)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 471 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2017

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: Germany, Spain

Director: Isabel Coixet

Cast: Эмили Мортимер, Билл Найи, Патрисия Кларксон, Джеймс Лэнс, Hunter Tremayne, Хонор Нифси, Frances Barber, Reg Wilson, Michael Fitzgerald, Nigel O'Neill

Plot

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

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.