Must See Trailer for Poetic Film ‘The Summer Book’ with Glenn Close
by Alex Billington
September 3, 2025
Source: YouTube
“I’m trying…” “I won’t be here forever.” Music Box Films has revealed an official US trailer for the lovely, must see film titled The Summer Book, directed by filmmaker Charlie McDowell (of The One I Love, The Discovery, Windfall). This premiered at various festivals last year including London, AFI Fest, Stockholm, Camerimage, and many others. This peaceful and poetic film is set on wonderful little island in Scandinavia. It is the inspirational tale of a young girl and her grandmother spending a summer on a small, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland. Her father is struggling with the death of his wife while his daughter’s curiosity grows. Adapted from Tove Jansson’s beloved novel, The Summer Book is a delicate account of growing up and growing old, beautifully filmed on 16mm in majestic natural light. This fantastic little film stars Glenn Close as Grandmother, Anders Danielsen Lie as Father, and the delightful Emily Matthews as Sophia, with Ingvar Sigurdsson as Eriksson. This is such a special film, and I am very happy to be quoted in this trailer from a glowing review I wrote last year. I’ve been recommending it to everyone… Catch it in theaters.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Charlie McDowell’s film The Summer Book, direct from YouTube:
9-year-old Sophia (Emily Matthews) spends the summers at her family’s seasonal home on a tranquil isle in the Gulf of Finland, but this will be the first summer without her mother. Her father (Anders Danielsen Lie) remains numbed by grief, while her grandmother (Glenn Close) guides her on a giddy, winding path towards young adulthood. With a sense of infinite possibility and a tender regard for the wonders of the natural world, Sophia and her grandmother explore the terrain, celebrate midsommar, and test the limits of faith in the face of life’s many storms. The Summer Book is directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Charlie McDowell, director of the films The One I Love, The Discovery, and Windfall previously, and eps of “Tales from the Loop” & “Dispatches from Elsewhere”. The screenplay is written by Robert Jones. Based on the book of the same name written by Tove Jansson. It’s produced by Aleksi Bardy, Kevin Loader, Kath Mattock, Charlie McDowell, Duncan Montgomery, Alex Orlovsky, Helen Vinogradov. This first premiered at the 2024 London Film Festival last year (read our review). Music Box Films opens McDowell’s The Summer Book in select US theaters starting on September 19th, 2025 coming soon. Who wants to watch the film?
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