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The Bookshop (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in an small English town in 1959, the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, tense, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, intellectual, slasher, art house, novela ...
Plot:
small town, bookstore, literature, narrow mindedness, widow, independent woman, death, platonic relationship, storekeeper, society, women, writers, rivalry, school, beach, fire, old man, little girl, voice over narration, loneliness, art, job, post war, mission, woman ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959
Place:
germany
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