Movie Morning: The Bookshop

Join Penrith City Libraries for a free film screening of “The Bookshop” directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Emily Mortimer. Rated PG.

Penrith City Libraries is celebrating Library and Information Week with a Movie Morning! A short 5-minute presentation on Library resources will be given at the start of the session.

The session is free, but bookings are required. Light refreshments will be provided.

About “The Bookshop”.

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one? Based on Penelope Fitzgerald's acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), 'The Bookshop' is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community. Rated PG.