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The Bookshop
Winner of Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 32nd Goya Awards!
Film Rave Wednesdays
September 12 at 7:20pm | Location: TBA at Screening
Film Raves are back! Join other Film Society Members & Staff following the Wednesday, 7:20pm screening of The Bookshop over a drink, to "rave"--good, bad, or other--about the night's film. Location TBA at the screening.
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one?
Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.
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