2hotFeature
one of my absolute favorites!
GurlyIamBeach
Instant Favorite.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
cnmjm
Too many historical timeline inaccuracies. A helicopter, unmanned lighthouse in 1959?
Accents all over the place!
Set in East Anglia, where you can see all the way to Moscow, with forests and cliffs. Laughable!
El
Beautiful movie! I was really taken by the plot and acting, it felt like real life to me. But I want a little bit more from the movie than I expect from reality. And most of all I don't want to be told what's right or wrong, black or white. Unfortunately this message is very clear here. We have evil from one side and good personified by the main character. As much as I enjoyed the film I felt certain luck of depth.
waltermwilliams
Books, The Best Weapons in the World.
And they're a weapon of mass destruction under Isabel Coixet's direction in "The Bookshop".
Set in late 50's England, this is one woman's battle to open a bookshop.
Emily Mortimers' Florence Green is pitted against the towns Social Matriarch, Violet Gamart, played by Oscar nominee Patricia Clarkson.
The Bookshop is based on Penelope Fitzgerald's novel and narrated from her point of view as a child in this charming seaside Village.
Award winning British Character actor, Bill Nighy steals every scene he's in.
So many books, so little time.
ok_english_bt
Felt like a great missed opportunity ... a flavour of post-war English small-mindedness, eccentrically 'off' characters in a Suffolk coastal town conspiring against the adventurous outsider trying to run a bookshop ... yet somehow it all fell flat for me. The actors weren't quite there, strange to see the likes of Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy struggling to make their lines work (under-rehearsed, perhaps, an unfinished script, cuts to the budget of the film ... who knows?).Viewers are quite savy these days, so you can't really paper over the cracks with nice costumes and authentic sets and settings etc. There will be some outside Britain who view the film as another quaint old period drama depicting how the country used to be, good for the American market etc. To be honest though, BBC and ITV turn out dramas like this season in seaon out, so I'm not sure what director Isabel Coixet hoped to achieve with this particular adaptation. Sorry, but script and acting needs work, no getting round it!I cried at the end of the film, when I realized one of its little 'big' ideas ... I won't spoil it for you, but for me personally that just added insult to injury!
