“You’re never alone in a bookshop.”
Words spoken in a movie, The Bookshop.
Words spoken in a movie, The Bookshop.
Never
truer.
The
life of books comes to be in this wonderful film that is not just about books,
but the enterprising spirit and what one would do to preserve it while another
goes all out to try to crush it.
It’s
also about love and love denied. It’s
about the forceful powers of good in some people, evil in others. It’s also
about the appreciation of words – spoken, unsaid, written, and printed.
In
case you can’t tell, I loved this movie.
It probably won’t be big at the box office, simply because artsy movies
don’t get the distribution that they deserve.
But it should be shown everywhere.
The
acting is powerful. Bill Nighy utters his
performance with a certain mix of frustration in his voice but an inner desire to do what is right, a muted power that
commands your attention. Emily Mortimer
brought a certain elegance, beauty, and passion to the screen that is not often
seen. A young, budding talent can be
viewed in Honor Kneafsey and a modern-day wicked soul was played undeniably
well by Patricia Clarkson.
The
movie takes place in a seaside town of England, 1959, where a controlling woman
wants to run her town with the cold, efficient, but polite-to-your-face
manner of Mr. Potter in It’s a Wonderful
Life. Along comes a mid-life widow who decides to follow her passion and
open a bookstore in a town lacking one. As the two do battle, other stories
develop. But all throughout you feel the power of books coming from the shelves
of her bookstore.
The
movie provides texture, the way you feel when you let your fingertips meander
across a velvet rope or a soft, leather couch.
The filming, editing, dialogue, and acting truly come together in a
cohesive manner, allowing you to experience through all of your senses. You could even taste and smell when you are
thrust into this thoughtful, touching and engaging story.
“The
film possesses such a clear passion and advocacy for writing, knowledge and
personal expression that it emerges as a largely worthy and poignant
accomplishment, especially given the vanishing state these days of that beloved
institution known as the book shop.”
--Los Angeles Times
Books
represent ideas, knowledge, and dreams.
The town that closes itself off from a bookstore is shutting down the
minds of others. But when books flourish
and their words are allowed to be consumed by any and all, even those who
believe themselves not to be bookish will feel a warming towards the worlds
books can craft for us. Books, as we see
in the film can be a gift that one hands to another. If you want to feel anger, love, revenge,
beauty – and feel for books – go see The
Bookshop.
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