Florence Green's bookstore
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Florence Green's bookstore |
| Original title | La Librería |
| Country of production | Great Britain , Spain , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Isabel Coixet |
| script | Isabel Coixet |
| production |
Jaume Banacolocha , Joan Bas , Adolfo Blanco , Chris Curling |
| music | Alfonso Vilallonga |
| camera | Jean-Claude Larrieu |
| cut | Bernat Aragonés |
| occupation | |
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The bookstore of Florence Green (Original title: La Librería ) is a film by the Spanish director Isabel Coixet from the year 2017 . The basis was the novel Die Buchhandlung (original title: The Bookshop ) by Penelope Fitzgerald from 1978. The film won three Goya film awards , as well as the award for the best international book adaptation at the Frankfurt Book Fair . The soundtrack of the same name by Alfonso Vilallonga was released on November 10, 2017.
content
The year is 1959. Florence Green, widowed in her thirties, lives in the village of Hardborough on the Suffolk coast . She decides to open a bookstore in the "Old House" there, but meets with resistance in the village. In addition to her, the plot also focuses on Mr. Edmund Brundish, a single elderly gentleman who does not leave his house and reads books all day.
At first Florence only hears negative opinions about her project. The spokesperson is Mrs. Violet Gamart, wife of a general, to whose party Florence is invited. Violet wants to build a cultural center in the "Old House" and is doing everything possible to prevent Florence's bookstore project. At the party, she also meets pushy Milo North, a BBC employee and Violet supporter. But despite all of Violet's attempts to talk Florence Green out of the project, she opens her “The Old House Bookshop”, which becomes a success.
To make her work easier, Florence hires the student Christine Gipping, with whom she befriends. She soon began receiving book orders from Edmund Brundish, and a bond developed between the two of them, first through letters and then through personal encounters.
Milo North gives Florence the book " Lolita " for inspection in the hope that she will sell it to her bookstore. The hustle and bustle that was to be expected over the controversial book should cause her problems. Unsure whether she really wants to sell the book in her bookstore, she asks Edmund Brundish for his honest opinion. Brundish advises her to sell "Lolita" and the two of them arrange to meet again. As was to be expected, “Lolita” caused quite an uproar among the villagers. Violet Gamart files a lawsuit arguing the attention the book attracts in the shop window is annoying her. She demands that the sale of the book be stopped immediately, but ultimately cannot prevail with this request.
But Violet does not give up. Your nephew finds a piece of law that allows access to buildings of historical interest. It is Violet's last move to get to the "Old House". Christine Gipping is also banned from working in the bookstore by an inspector who checks whether schoolchildren work in their free time.
More and more stones are put in Florence's way, and in her desperation she meets Edmund Brundish again. He promises to talk to Violet. Here it becomes clear how close the two have come when they stand cheek to cheek for several minutes and he says goodbye to her with a kiss on the hand. When Edmund Brundish meets with Violet the following day, she shows herself unreasonable and points out the relevant law to him. He leaves her house angry. On the way home he collapses and dies in front of his house.
Violet can finally prevail. With the help of paragraphs and after an inspection of the bookstore by an inspector, the house is classified as uninhabitable. According to Milo North, who worked briefly as a temporary worker at Florence, it caused him physical discomfort. Florence finds herself forced to give up the shop "The Old House Bookshop" and leaves Hardborough. Already on the ferry, on the way to another city, she sees Christine Kipping standing on the jetty with the book in her hands that Florence had recommended to her. Smoke rises in the background where the "Old House" is. Christine had set it on fire with the kerosene stove.
In the end, it turns out that the adult Christine Kipping is the narrator of the story, who opened her own bookstore and remembers Florence.
synchronization
The German synchronization was created by the RRP Media in Berlin for a dialogue book of Matthias Müntefering under the dialogue director of Torsten Sense .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Florence Green | Emily Mortimer | Anna Grisebach |
| Edmund Brundish | Bill Nighy | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Violet Gamart | Patricia Clarkson | Gertie Honeck |
| Christine Gipping | Honor Kneafsey | Naomi Hadad |
| Mrs. Gipping | Lucy Tillett | Dana Friedrich |
| Milo North | James Lance | Frank Röth |
| Wally | Harvey Bennett | Lukas Müntefering |
| Mr. Raven | Michael Fitzgerald | Axel Lutter |
| Mr. Thornton | Jorge Suquet | Karlo Hackenberger |
| Mr. Keble | Hunter Tremayne | Hans Hohlbein |
| Jessie Welford | Frances Barber | Heidi Weigelt |
| Kattie | Charlotte Vega | Jessica Walther-Gabory |
| Narrator | Julie Christie (voice) | Karin Buchholz |
Book and film
In 2017 the Florence Green bookshop won the award for the best international book adaptation at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Critics even said that the film was too close to the book.
Both media have one thing in common: They manage to create a still oppressive situation with a calm narrative. One major difference that stands out is that the film tries to fill in some of the gaps that the book has left.
Bill Nighy said in an interview that Isabel Coixet was the main influence on the relationship between Edmund Brundish and Florence Green. The director makes this seem like a much more intense and rich encounter than the author did, and thus makes it easier to understand what basically connects the two. The book says that “loneliness and loneliness” met each other, but the brief correspondence and a meeting hardly provide any information about why Edmund Brundish and Florence Green feel a certain love for one another. On the other hand, by adding dialogues, scenes and symbolic images, the film succeeds in giving the story of these two people more depth and thus reinforcing the impression that two “companions” have met here.
Another accent shift is that the book is primarily concerned with the suppression of a dreamer and the exploitation of power, while the film, as the real greatest love story, focuses on the love of the bookstore and literature.
Awards
The script won the award for the best international book adaptation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017.
In the same year the film was nominated for 12 Goya Awards . On February 3, 2018, he won three of them, namely in the categories of best film, best adapted screenplay and best director.
On December 28, 2017, The Florence Green Bookstore received 12 nominations for the Gaudí Awards and exactly one month later won in the categories of best soundtrack and best production design.
On March 13, 2018, he was nominated in four categories of the Platino Awards , but won none.
Web links
- The bookstore of Florence Green in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Florence Green Bookstore . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- Jump up ↑ Age rating for The Florence Green Bookstore . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The Florence Green Bookstore. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on May 15, 2019 .
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-WC60ndP_o
- ↑ https://www.buchmesse.de/en/press/press-releases/2017-10-11-frankfurter-buchmesse-prize-for-best-international
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001574/2018/1/
- ↑ https://variety.com/2018/film/news/isabel-coixet-the-bookshop-spain-2018-goya-awards-1202686680/