Over the summer, my mom and I went to the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island and saw The Bookshop, a new film by Isabel Coixet starring Emily Mortimer as a 1950s British widow who decides to open up a bookshop in a seaside village, and gets all this unnecessary pushback for it by the locals for being an independent widow. It’s a small, bittersweet gem, and Mortimer was lovely in playing a sweet woman who just wanted to share her love of books with everyone and to bring more culture to the small town. I especially liked Bill Nighy as a reserved man who ordered her books from afar and fell in love with Ray Bradbury novels. I’m a fan of Coixet from her film My Life Without Me, so it was great to see a new film from her.
There was a short film preceding the film that I liked a lot called Seven, a tense drama in which a Norwegian woman has to decide the punishment for a man who killed her father. The film’s backdrop is about oil rig workers working in the Arctic in Norway and clashing with locals over drilling in their homes, and the film had a lot of intensity for being so short, I was really into it a lot.
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