ISABEL COIXET

IT SNOWS IN BENIDORM (2022)
Starring Timothy Spall, Sarita Choudhury, Pedro Casablanc, Carmen MacHi, Ana Torrent, Édgar Vittorino, Leonardo Ortizgris, Ben Temple, Malcolm McCarthy and Miguel Such. Directed by Isabel Coixet.

After being forced to retire from his life-long job at a Manchester bank, Peter, a man of routines and few joys, decides to go to Benidorm to visit his brother Daniel with whom he has little contact. But when he arrives in Benidorm, Daniel seems to have vanished. Peter will then discover that his brother owns the Benidorm Club, where a group of dancers make exotic and burlesque performances. Among them, Alex, a beautiful woman with an enigmatic past, who will steal his heart.

In the search for his brother, Peter will confront dangers involving real estate mafias and unpaid debts. Benidorm will be one more protagonist in this story, a place sometimes beautiful, sometimes dangerous and gloomy that will be the background of a romantic love story in its twilight.

THE BOOKSHOP (2018)
Starring Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Honor Kneafsey, Hunter Tremayne, James Lance, Frances Barber, Reg Wilson, Michael Fitzgerald and Nigel O'Neill. Directed by Isabel Coixet.

Set in 1959, Florence Green, a free spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop – the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. Fighting damp, cold and considerable local apathy she struggles to establish herself but soon her fortunes change for the better. By exposing the narrow minded local townsfolk to the best literature of the day including Nabokov’s scandalising 'Lolita' and Ray Bradbury’s 'Fahrenheit 451', she opens their eyes thereby causing a cultural awakening in a town which has not changed for centuries.

Her activities bring her a kindred spirit and ally in the figure of Mr Brundish who is himself sick of the town’s stale atmosphere. But this mini social revolution soon brings her fierce enemies: she invites the hostility of the town’s less prosperous shopkeepers and also crosses Mrs Gamart, Hardborough’s vengeful, embittered alpha female who is herself a wannabe doyenne of the local arts scene. When Florence refuses to bend to Gamart’s will, they begin a struggle not just for the bookshop but for the very heart and soul of the town.

REVIEWS The Bookshop - Faded and musty

LEARNING TO DRIVE (2015)
Starring Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Jake Weber and Grace Gummer. Directed by Isabel Coixet.

As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other’s company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

IT SNOWS IN BENIDORM (2022)
Starring Timothy Spall, Sarita Choudhury, Pedro Casablanc, Carmen MacHi, Ana Torrent, Édgar Vittorino, Leonardo Ortizgris, Ben Temple, Malcolm McCarthy and Miguel Such. Directed by Isabel Coixet.

After being forced to retire from his life-long job at a Manchester bank, Peter, a man of routines and few joys, decides to go to Benidorm to visit his brother Daniel with whom he has little contact. But when he arrives in Benidorm, Daniel seems to have vanished. Peter will then discover that his brother owns the Benidorm Club, where a group of dancers make exotic and burlesque performances. Among them, Alex, a beautiful woman with an enigmatic past, who will steal his heart.

In the search for his brother, Peter will confront dangers involving real estate mafias and unpaid debts. Benidorm will be one more protagonist in this story, a place sometimes beautiful, sometimes dangerous and gloomy that will be the background of a romantic love story in its twilight.

THE BOOKSHOP (2018)
Starring Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Honor Kneafsey, Hunter Tremayne, James Lance, Frances Barber, Reg Wilson, Michael Fitzgerald and Nigel O'Neill. Directed by Isabel Coixet.

Set in 1959, Florence Green, a free spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop – the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. Fighting damp, cold and considerable local apathy she struggles to establish herself but soon her fortunes change for the better. By exposing the narrow minded local townsfolk to the best literature of the day including Nabokov’s scandalising 'Lolita' and Ray Bradbury’s 'Fahrenheit 451', she opens their eyes thereby causing a cultural awakening in a town which has not changed for centuries.

Her activities bring her a kindred spirit and ally in the figure of Mr Brundish who is himself sick of the town’s stale atmosphere. But this mini social revolution soon brings her fierce enemies: she invites the hostility of the town’s less prosperous shopkeepers and also crosses Mrs Gamart, Hardborough’s vengeful, embittered alpha female who is herself a wannabe doyenne of the local arts scene. When Florence refuses to bend to Gamart’s will, they begin a struggle not just for the bookshop but for the very heart and soul of the town.

REVIEWS The Bookshop - Faded and musty