“The Bookshop”, a drama film based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name, will be screened at London’s Electric Shoreditch Cinema on August 9.The internationally co-produced drama film, written and directed by Isabel Coixet, stars Emily Mortimer as Florence Green, Patricia Clarkson as Violet Gamart, and Bill Nighy as Edmund Brundish. After “Elegy” and “Learning to Drive,” this is the third collaboration between Clarkson and Coixet, and the second film that features both Mortimer and Clarkson after “The Party.”Like the novel, the film too is set mainly in 1959, and centers around the life of Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in Hardborough, a small fictional coastal town of Suffolk. The setting chosen is the Old House, a dilapidated, abandoned and damp house believed to be infested by ghosts. Florence makes many sacrifices before she is able to actually start her business, which grows for about a year but the sales slump thereafter.Mr. Brundish, played by Bill Nighy is the lonely and mysterious inhabitant of the house on the top of the hill. He is Florence's best client. Things get worse for Mrs. Green, when the influential and ambitious Mrs. Gamart comes up with the idea of setting up an arts centre in the Old House. The latter’s nephew, who is a member of Parliament, introduces a bill which gives the power to local councils to buy any historical building that is lying uninhabited for five or more years. The bill is passed and the Old House is purchased to satiate the whims of Mrs. Gambart. Florence is evicted.The Bookshop, “La libreria” in Spanish, premiered at the inauguration gala of the 2017 edition of SEMINCI, Valladolid, with encouraging reviews. The Spanish version released on November 10, with undisputed positive reviews, grossing close to 3.5 million USD along more than fifteen weeks in Spanish theaters. The film has been shot in multiple locations like Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland, and Barcelona, Spain between August and September 2016. The film has won three Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, “The Bookshop,” has an approval rating of 52% based on 27 reviews, and an average rating of 5.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A rare adaptation that sticks too closely to its source material, The Bookshop's meticulously crafted world building gets lost in its meandering pace."The film will be screened on August 9, 2018 at Electric Shoreditch, 64-66 Redchurch St, Shoreditch, London E2 7DPFor details, visit https://www.electriccinema.co.ukClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the film.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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