SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

adilhan I kept postponing to watch this movie, till I could find a suitable weekend night to watch it. I wanted to enjoy it at most. Because there are so few movies about books, and the cast looked promising. But it was a huge disappointment.Probably the novel is much better than the movie. I don't know if there were any last minute limitations on budget etc., but the movie seems like a body with its soul removed. A lot of on-the-nose dialogue, too much predictability, not giving you the impulse to see the next scene. It could easily be played in 30 minutes instead of 2 hours, and I'm sorry to say that I felt like watching a play that was adapted from a text written for a secondary school homework. One big fault of the script was the vagueness of the source of antagonist's motivation, which is written in every book about script writing. You keep waiting to learn the reason behind, alas, you sleep while waiting. I took time to write this review, because if you have so few shots to make a picture about books in the movie industry, this shouldn't be the way it shall be done. Because it makes new movies about books seem infeasible to producers.

Clive Hodges In 1959, Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) buys the dilapidated 'Old House' in the small coastal town of Hardborough, East Anglia, takes over the unsold stock of a business in London that has closed, and opens a bookshop. Reading is not a past-time that's widely popular in Hardborough. The townsfolk are convinced that the bookshop of kind-hearted Mrs Green, widowed during World War II, will fail - not for economic reasons or lack of readers but because the formidable, ruthless and vindictive Mrs Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), self-appointed patroness of all public activities in the town, wants 'Old House' to be an Arts and Cultural Centre. Florence does have supporters. There's young Christine (Honor Kneafsey), worldly beyond her years, who helps out after school; and Edmund Brundish (Bill Nighy), the local squire, a voracious reader and Florence's best customer. The film moves at a leisurely pace. A pace that allows us time to appreciate whatever is on the screen, be it conflict, embarrassment, unresolved tension or moments of reflection. A pace that allows time for the cinematographer (Jean-Claude Larrieu) to linger on water, trees, fields and tall grass wavering in the wind. Isabel Coixet, the director, wrote the screenplay which she based on a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. The movie - filmed in County Down, Northern Ireland and Barcelona, Spain - won three of Spain's Goya Awards (best film; best director; best adapted screenplay) earlier this year. The cast performs magnificently. Florence: naïve, courageous, and trusting; Christine: precocious and determined; Edmund: reclusive and supportive; Violet: persuasive, highly motivated, and effective. This painfully tender movie - rigorously unsentimental - wormed its way into my affections. It's a film that touches the emotions with an ending that's bitter-sweet.

nowego Being a romantic at heart, this is one of those movies that I had high hopes for a happy ending, but expected the worst.Being a really big fan of Bill Nighy since forever and really liking Emily Mortomer since The Newsroom, I went into this movie not being sure what to expect. Bill Nighy was not in it enough for my liking and it was a bit slow, but some movies have to be slow to appreciate them.Emily Mortimer did a good job, but the actress who stole the movie for me was Honor Kneafsey.Anyone going into this movie expecting anything more than it is needs to remember this is set in 1959, from my reading of history nothing much happened at a fast pace almost directly after WW2. People were still rebuilding, its a pity though that the attitudes of the snobs still ruled.This movie should get most peoples emotions running high. I enjoyed it even though I had to pause it when I saw what was coming.A good movie to watch once.

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.