60 CinÉireann / January 2018
THE BOOKSHOP
DIR: ISABEL COIXET
PRO: ZEPHYR FILMS
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Florence Green, a woman in a small town in 1959 England decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. A decision which becomes a political minefield. By exposing the locals to cutting-edge literature of the day such as Nabokov’s 'Lolita' and Ray Bradbury’s 'Fahrenheit 451', she sows the seeds of an awakening in the conservative town.
The Bookshop is directed by Isabel Coixet from her adaptation of the novel of the same name by Penelope Fitzgerald.
The film stars Emily Mortimer, Honor Kneafsey, Bill Nighy, Harvey Bennett, James Lance, Patricia Clarkson, Michael Fitzgerald, Jorge Suquet, Hunter Tremayne, Frances Barber.
The Bookshop was filmed in Bangor Castle, Crawfordsburn, the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Portaferry, Strangford and Stormont Estate in Northern Ireland.
It is a Diagonal TV (ES), Contracorriente Films (ES), Zephyr Films (UK) production. Co-produced with One Two Films (DE), Green Films (ES) and with the support and participation of ICAA (ES), ICEC (ES), TVE (ES), Movistar+ (ES), Natixis Coficine (FR) and Northern Ireland Screen (UK).
The Bookshop is the third collaboration between Patricia Clarkson and Isabel Coixet, after Elegy and Learning to Drive. It premiered at the inauguration gala of the 2017 edition of SEMINCI, Valladolid, and will enjoy a Special Gala screening at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.