
The Bookshop
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.

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.
It has an adorably quaint setting, a 1950s-'60s seaside town in England. It features books and shops and has as its heroine a brave widow who ... The narrator intones, “Florence had managed to live life thus far by pretending that human…
Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy form a tender connection in this film adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald's 1978 novel. ... The Spanish director Isabel Coixet might have been the best thing to happen to “The Bookshop,” a gently disruptive…
Drama films. This article is more than 8 years old. Review.He is Edmund Brundish, a recluse who is passionate about literature but loathes people, to the extent that he destroys the author photos on the back of novels. One wonders how he…