Review of The Bookshop (2017) by Doug B — 09 Nov 2018
A nice period piece, but pretty technically rough and poorly done. There's a lighting scene early on (boatman tosses a rope to the protagonist) and it's so badly lit that you can almost see the technicians holding the floods. There's a scene (Patricia Clarkson meets her MP nephew) where the fellow's makeup is so bad it's obvious he's wearing lipstick.
Bill Nighy, as always, is very redemptive for the movie; does a very nice pass, as does the lead, Emily Mortimer (John Mortimer's (Rumpole) daughter, btw, also star of "The Newsroom").
Worth seeing, but barely.
This review of The Bookshop (2017) was written by Doug B on 09 Nov 2018.
The Bookshop has generally received mixed reviews.
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