Greenwich Entertainment has released a new U.S. trailer for writer-director Isabel Coixet’s adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel The Bookshop, which stars Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson; take a look at the trailer here…
SEE ALSO: Read our review of The Bookshop here
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.
The Bookshop is set for release on August 24th.