The Summer Book Review

The Summer Book review: Lovely moments in unhurried adaptation of treasured Tove Jansson novel

English-language film directed by Charlie McDowell is old-fashioned in both good and bad ways

The Summer Book (Film Review) — A Touching Reflection

Charlie McDowell’s The Summer Book is a contemplative drama about grief. Written by Robert Jones and based on Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel.

Review: Without Glenn Close, The Summer Book would drift away

By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan The Summer Book, directed by Charlie McDowell, is a film of quiet intentions, built around silence, memory, and the rhythms of nature. Adapted from Tove Jansson’s celebrated novel, it unfolds on a  tiny, idyllic island in the Gulf of Finland where a young girl, her father, and her elderly grandmother […] The post Review: Without Glenn Close, The Summer Book would drift away appeared first on VIEWdigital.

The Summer Book Review

The 1970s. Three generations spend the summer in a cabin on their tiny Finnish island: nine-year-old Sophia (Emily Matthews), whose mum has died; Sophia’s grieving illustrator father (Anders Danielsen Lie), and his spirited but ailing elderly mother (Glenn Close). Although the family has been fractured by bereavement – we aren’t told when it happened, but… The post The Summer Book Review appeared first on Culturefly.

The Summer Book review – dismally cosy

Glenn Close plays the sagely grandmother steering her son and granddaughter through mourning in this soporific, undernourishing adaptation of Tove Jansson's autofiction.  This film is aimed at a very specific niche of Tove Jansson fandom – it’s for an elite tier who aren’t interested in her as creator of those lovable moppets, The Moomins, but as an author of soft-edged, new-agey autofiction. It sees young Sophie (Emily Matthews) and her introve…