Showing posts with label Isabel Coixet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isabel Coixet. Show all posts

Friday, 14 June 2019

The Bookshop (2017)



England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Sad, melancholic tale is presented in a pedestrian pace, but has a good cast and period details and a heartbreaking ending.


Sunday, 16 October 2016

The Secret Life of Words (2005)



A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.

Harrowing and gripping, but quite far-fetched story is told subtly and slowly, but mainly convinces on Sarah Polley's outstanding performance.

Maltin***: "Intriguing character study with a great performance by Polley and agreeable sketches of the motley characters who work on the rig."