Review of The Bookshop (2017) by Anthony W — 06 Jan 2019
A beautifully paced movie, very quiet and British, no sex, no guns, no violence, some anachronisms (notably the windows (and some plastic front doors!) of Portaferry and Strangford in Northern Ireland.
The bookshop itself is totally unbelievable, the expropriation / compulsory purchase law crucial to the plot is a complete fiction, but Bill Nighy a delight, as ever. This is a film I would like to see again, because I think I missed some of the subtleties.
(The French subtitles weren't the best.).
This review of The Bookshop (2017) was written by Anthony W on 06 Jan 2019.
The Bookshop has generally received mixed reviews.
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