“The Bookshop” quotes
(2017)
Isabel Coixet
directed this movie
in 2017
Title The Bookshop
Year 2017
Director Isabel Coixet
Genre Drama
Year 2017
Director Isabel Coixet
Genre Drama
Plot – The Bookshop is a 2017 drama film based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Penelope Fitzgerald. Set in England 1959 it follows lead character Florence Green, a free-spirited widow who puts grief behind her and risks everything to open a bookshop in the coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk, against conservative and ruthless local opposition. By exposing the narrow-minded local townsfolk to literature, she causes a cultural awakening in a town which has not changed for centuries. But is there really a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one?
All actors – Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Hunter Tremayne, Honor Kneafsey, Michael Fitzgerald, Frances Barber, Reg Wilson, James Lance, Patricia Clarkson, Lucy Beckwith, Nigel O'Neill, Jorge Suquet, Harvey Bennett, Lana O'Kell, Adie Allen, Lucy Tillett, Toby Gibson, Gary Piquer, Alfie Rowland, Sophie Heydel, Mary O'Driscoll, Karen Ardiff, Charlotte Vega, Barry Barnes, Conor Smith, Rachel Gadd, James Murphy, Nick Devlin, Richard Felix, Franchesca McGill Perkins, Robbie Beggs, Reed Brody, Julie Christie, Ramón De España, Robert Forcadell, Corey Millar, Max Mir
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“When we read a story, we inhabit it; the covers of the books are like a roof and four walls: a house.”
“A good book is the precious distillation of a master's spirit, embalmed and preserved for the purpose of achieving a life beyond life.”
“People always say life has passed by women who have no children.”
“Let me tell you what it is I admire about human beings. What I value most is the one virtue they share with gods and animals, and which I will therefore no longer refer to as a virtue. I mean... courage. ”
“No one ever feels alone in a bookshop.”
“I mustn't let myself worry while there's life, there's hope.”
“In the case of biographies, it's better, I find, if they're about good people, whereas novels are much more interesting if they are about nasty people.”
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