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The Bookshop
Der Buchladen der Florence Green
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© the producers / Lisbeth SalasBill Nighy [...]The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Berlinale Special 2018
ESP/GBR/DEU 2017
by: Isabel Coixet
Bill Nighy
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© the producers / Aidan MonaghanBill Nighy, Emily Mortimer [...]The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Berlinale Special 2018
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by: Isabel Coixet
Bill Nighy, Emily Mortimer
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© the producers / Aidan MonaghanEmily Mortimer [...]The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Berlinale Special 2018
ESP/GBR/DEU 2017
by: Isabel Coixet
Emily Mortimer
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© Lisbeth SalasPatricia Clarkson, James Lance [...]The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Berlinale Special 2018
ESP/GBR/DEU 2017
by: Isabel Coixet
Patricia Clarkson, James Lance
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© Lisbeth SalasPatricia Clarkson [...]The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Berlinale Special 2018
ESP/GBR/DEU 2017
by: Isabel Coixet
Patricia Clarkson
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© Lisbeth SalasEmily Mortimer [...]The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
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ESP/GBR/DEU 2017
by: Isabel Coixet
Emily Mortimer
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© Alberto GamazoIsabel Coixet [...]The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Berlinale Special 2018
ESP/GBR/DEU 2017
by: Isabel Coixet
Isabel Coixet
© Alberto Gamazo
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Feb 16, 2018 | Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Isabel Coixet [...]
Feb 16, 2018Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Isabel Coixet
The two leading actresses and the director giving autographs before the premiere.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green – Friedrichstadt-Palast
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Feb 16, 2018 | Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson [...]
Feb 16, 2018Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson
The two leading actresses on their way to the stage.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green – Friedrichstadt-Palast
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Feb 16, 2018 | Emily Mortimer [...]
Feb 16, 2018Emily Mortimer
The actress at the Press Conference.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green
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Feb 16, 2018 | Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson [...]
Feb 16, 2018Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson
The two leading actresses before the premiere.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green – Friedrichstadt-Palast
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Feb 16, 2018 | Patricia Clarkson [...]
Feb 16, 2018Patricia Clarkson
The actress before the premiere.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green – Friedrichstadt-Palast
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Feb 16, 2018 | Patricia Clarkson [...]
Feb 16, 2018Patricia Clarkson
The actress on the Red Carpet.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green – Friedrichstadt-Palast
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Feb 16, 2018 | Emily Mortimer [...]
Feb 16, 2018Emily Mortimer
The actress on the Red Carpet.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green – Friedrichstadt-Palast
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Feb 16, 2018 | Patricia Clarkson, Isabel Coixet [...]
Feb 16, 2018Patricia Clarkson, Isabel Coixet
The actress and the director before the premiere.
Berlinale Special – The Bookshop | Der Buchladen der Florence Green – Friedrichstadt-Palast
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© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
Patricia Clarkson [...]
Patricia Clarkson
Date: Feb 16, 2018 - Time: 19:24:56
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© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
Emily Mortimer [...]
Emily Mortimer
Date: Feb 16, 2018 - Time: 19:27:15
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© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
Isabel Coixet [...]
Isabel Coixet
Date: Feb 16, 2018 - Time: 19:22:04
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
© Gerhard Kassner / Berlinale
© Gerhard Kassner / BerlinalePatricia Clarkson (Actress), Isabel Coixet (Director), Emily Mortimer (Actress)
Moderation: Anatol Weber
At the end of the 1950s, a young widow named Florence Green decides to put her grief behind her and make a long-cherished dream come true. She buys a weather-beaten house in the sleepy English coastal town of Hardborough and opens a bookshop inside it. But her project encounters both prejudice and resistance. The town’s provincial inhabitants, who haven’t really encountered any of the cultural upheavals that have swept through the country’s far-off urban centres, are catapulted out of their lethargy by cutting-edge controversial contemporary works such as Nabokov's ‘Lolita’ and Ray Bradbury's ‘Fahrenheit 451’. Florence finds a kindred spirit in the shape of the reclusive Mr Brundish, but she also finds a formidable opponent in Mrs Gamart, a local figure and would-be patron of the arts who jealously guards her sphere of influence. This adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1978 novel is a celebration of bibliophilia. Director Isabel Coixet has succeeded in creating a distinctive, stylistically coherent drama about the struggle of a woman who courageously takes her life into her own hands and tries to introduce a breath of fresh air into a crusty community.
by
Isabel Coixet
Spain / Great Britain / Germany 2017
English
113’ · Colour
With
Emily Mortimer (Florence Green)Bill Nighy (Edmund Brundish)Patricia Clarkson (Violet Gamart)James Lance (Milo North)Honor Kneafsey (Christine Gipping)Frances Barber (Jessie Welford)Jorge Suquet (Mr. Thornton)Charlotte Vega (Kattie)Hunter Tremayne (Mr. Keble)Reg Wilson (General Gamart)
Crew
- Written and directed by
- Isabel Coixet, based upon the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald
- Director of Photography
- Jean Claude Larrieu
- Editing
- Bernat Aragonés
- Music
- Alfonso de Vilallonga
- Sound Design
- Enrique G. Bermejo
- Sound
- Albert Gay
- Production Design
- Llorenç Miquel
- Costumes
- Mercè Paloma
- Make-up
- Montse Sanfeliu
- Assistant Director
- Luca Vacchi
- Casting
- Jeremy Zimmermann
- Production Managers
- Jordi Berenguer, Alex Boyd
- Producers
- Joan Bas, Jaume Banacolocha, Adolfo Blanco, Chris Curling
- Executive Producers
- Albert Sagalés, Manuel Monzón, Paz Recolons, Fernando Riera
- Co-producers
- Jamila Wenske, Sol Bondy
- Co-production
- One Two Films, Berlin
Biography
Isabel Coixet
Born in Barcelona, she studied history and then began working in advertising with her commercials winning several awards. In 2000 she founded her own production company, Miss Wasabi. She garnered her first international success with Things I Never Told You (Panorama, 1996). Her film Elegy participated in the 2008 Competition. In 2009 she was a member of the International Jury, in 2011 her documentary Listening to the Judge screened in the Berlinale, as did her feature film Yesterday Never Ends in 2013. In 2015 she opened the Festival with her feature film Nobody Wants the Night.
Filmography1984 Mira y veras; short film 1989 Demasiado viejo para morir joven (Too Old to Die Young) 1995 Cosas que nunca te dije (Things I Never Told You) 1998 A los que aman (To Those Who Love) 2002 Mi vida sin mi (My Life Without Me) 2004 ¡Hay motivo!; segment “La insoportable levedad del carrito de la compra” 2005 La vida secreta de les paraules (The Secret Life of Words) 2006 Paris, je t’aime; segment “Bastille” · Cartas a Nora; short film 2008 Elegy 2009 Map of the Sounds of Tokio 2010 Aral. The Lost Sea; documentary 2011 Escuchando al juez Garzón (Listening to the Judge); documentary 2012 Marea Blanca; short film 2013 Ayer no termina nunca (Yesterday Never Ends) 2014 Aprendiendo a conducir (Learning to Drive) · Mi otro yo (Another Me) 2015 Nadie Quiere la Noche (Nobody Wants the Night) 2016 Spain in a Day; documentary 2017 The Bookshop
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
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