directed by: Isabel Coixet, year: 2017
actors: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson

Florence Green, a determined widow, opens a modest bookshop in a 1959 East Anglian town, provoking the town’s polite but ruthless resistance. Isabel Coixet’s restrained, atmospheric drama examines ambition, tradition, and the silent power of ideas as a single shop becomes a focal point for affection, censorship, and change. Led by Emily Mortimer’s poised performance, the film balances wit and melancholy in a quietly devastating exploration of cultural conflict and personal independence.

Publishing, Drama, Historical Drama, Period Drama, Literary Adaptation, Feminist, British Cinema