The Summer Book

Glenn Close gives a wonderfully graceful performance in Charlie McDowell’s beautifully filmed, tender and evocative adaptation of Moomin creator Tove Jansson’s beloved novel. 

An intergenerational family spends a transformative summer at their rustic holiday home on an unspoiled, remote island in the Gulf of Finland. Exploring loss, the natural world, and the delicate bonds between a young girl, her wise grandmother (Close) and her grieving father (Anders Danielsen Lie), The Summer Book is a poignant exploration of life's beginnings and endings.