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The Bookshop

2017 · 110 min

A quiet, bittersweet period drama about quiet defiance against small-town pettiness, with a lingering sense of loss.

Tagline: A town without a bookshop is no town at all.
Overview: Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, tense and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Isolation, class, power, love
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
class
power
love
betrayal
Places: small town
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none