The Last Letter From Your Lover
When it come to romance , Netflix has cemented itself as a home for romcoms . Less frequent for the serving are romanticistic drama , though it appear the streamer is starting to reclaim this withThe Last Letter From Your Lover . Based on the novel by Jojo Moyes ( Me Before You),The Last Letter From Your Lovertakes on two very well - known tropes within the romance literary genre and ties them together in a neat little bow . The result is a sweet heartfelt movie that is bound to tug at some heartstrings . The Last Letter From Your Loveris a charming flavor at two dearest chronicle , and while it ’s scarce anything newfangled , the moving-picture show holds slew of warmth .
Opening in 1965,The Last Letter From Your Loverfinds society wife Jennifer Stirling ( Shailene Woodley ) struggle to think what her life-time was like before a annihilative car accident stole her computer memory . Her husband ( Joe Alwyn ) is upstage , leading Jennifer to head her own investigation . The uncovering of a passionate tone from " group B " pulls her back to the summertime when she met Anthony O’Hare ( Callum Turner ) , the charming diarist who was assigned to encompass her husband , but come down for her instead . In the present Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , fellow journalist Ellie ( Felicity Jones ) is attempting to draw out her own biography together when she find the last of Anthony ’s letters to Jennifer . She then sets off on her own journeying with archives worker Rory ( Nabhaan Rizwan ) to learn precisely what happened between the star - crossed lovers .
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Frizzell approaches both past and present with a cutter intimacy that is meet for a chronicle such as this one . Both the cinematography from George Steel and the score from Daniel Hart giveThe Last Letter From Your Lovera dreamy feel , making it easy for audiences to get lost in the blossoming romanticism . Of the two , both are compelling at different time . Watching Jennifer and Anthony steady reap nigher despite their good exploit is sweet , but nothing tugs at the heartstrings more than where the present day finds them . Meanwhile , Ellie and Rory ’s meet - cute is far from pleasant , but that construct their eventual courting all the more endearing .
Though the script does n’t give many shade to the lineament , the cast readily steps up . Both Ellie and Rory have thing going on outside of their investigation into the letter , but the movie itself seldom dips into them . As a result , Jones and Rizwan are left to add those touches on their own , and they do so well ; Ellie and Rory become fleshed - out characters under their care . As for Woodley and Turner , they deal Jennifer and Anthony ’s heat , to the point in time where it ’s operose not to root for them . It also helps that Alwyn is n’t give much to do , depart him - the main obstacle to Jennifer and Anthony ’s felicity - as piffling more than a ancestry character .
The Last Letter From Your Loverisn’t precisely change the plot when it come to romantic play , but it serve its part well . Fans of the genre will find plenty to be charmed by , and even if one pairing does n’t invoke , there ’s another find their own direction forward . As a result , The Last Letter From Your Loverfeels like a sweet rainy day fellow traveler , making it a whole entrance to Netflix ’s ever - grow repertoire of sexual love chronicle .
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The Last Letter From Your Loverbegins streaming Friday , July 23 on Netflix . It is 110 minutes long and is rated television - MA .
The Last Letter From Your Lover is a romantic dramatic play plastic film based on a novel by Jojo Moyes , which tells the story of a diarist who pick up a collection of love alphabetic character from the 1960s and sets out to uncover the identity of the fan . The film boast Felicity Jones , Callum Turner , Shailene Woodley , Joe Alwyn , and Nabhaan Rizwan in the lead office .
Felicity Jones and Nabhaan Rizwan in The Last Letter From Your Lover
Shailene Woodley in The Last Letter From Your Lover
