The movie was shot beatifully, with the scenes feeling like taken directly from the British oil paintings, with the blue skyline converging to the sea, the wavering grass, the shore line, the old and beaten-down castle.
The time is 1959, the protagonist is a lady, Florence Green, widowed for 17 years, living in a small English costal town, loved to read, and wanted to open her own bookshop. It was immediately opposed by the town's people, especially by the powerful Mrs. Violet Gamart, the local grand dame. Florence was discouraged from the very start, yet she persisted.
The small house where she chose to open the bookshop, was also her residence. I love these bookshops: small, cozy, intimate; when you enter, you feel like you are entering someone's carefully curated world of books, world of mind, someone's spiritual home.
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