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Film reviews: The Bookshop, Leave No Trace, The Endless and more...Isabel Coixet’s adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, THE BOOKSHOP, was wildly successful in Spain, but does it ring true for British audiences? THE BOOKSHOP ★★ (Cert PG, 113mins)CATALAN writer-director Isabel Coixet’s adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1978 novel has already been a box office hit in Spain.But British audiences might be a lot more discerning when they see her take on English country life.As is often the case with British drama, the setting is a sleepy 1950s coastal town. But this is not the gentle, nostalgia-soaked vision familiar from Sunday evening TV.For one thing everyone in the fictional Norfolk town of Hardborough has a different accent.Even odder is the way the actors over-enunciate their stilted dialogue as if they are in a Radio 4 afternoon play.As Julie Christie’s sombre narrator tells us this is the story of widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) and her attempt to open a bookshop in a long-abandoned house.This puts her in direct conflict with Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), a retired general’s wife and the town’s self-appointed leader.We meet Violet at an awkwardly stiff soirée where she “advises” Florence to sell the old house so she can turn it into an arts centre.Florence finds an ally in the brooding Mr Brundish (Bill Nighy), a wealthy local recluse who, Christie tells us, “adored books with the same passion with which he detested his fellow men”.We then see him tearing authors’ photographs from the dust jackets of a large pile of books before tossing them on to his living room fire.A jarringly chirpy score suggests that this is the typical behaviour of a lovable English eccentric.But you would be forgiven for interpreting his blank expression as the crazed stare of a pyromaniac.The roaming accents, the bizarre performances and Nighy’s picture burning give the opening act a certain nightmarish quality.This begins to subside when a reasonably interesting plot

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