The Bookshop (2017)

A widow decides to open a bookstore in a small Suffolk coastal town in 1959, and the town's polite establishment decides she shouldn't. Emily Mortimer plays her with stubborn gentleness, and Bill Nighy is wonderful as a reclusive reader won over by the books she sends him. Isabel Coixet's adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald's novel is about what a single shop full of books can mean to a place, and how fiercely some people resist it. It is wistful rather than triumphant, so expect an ending that stings a little.