Last Letter from Your Lover

Name: Last Letter from Your Lover
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: July 23, 2021
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Ann Ogbomo, Ben Cross, Callum Turner, Christian Brassington, Diana Kent

2021

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): July 23, 2021 | TV-MA

Starring: Ann Ogbomo, Ben Cross, Callum Turner, Christian Brassington, Diana Kent, Emma Appleton, Felicity Jones, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Jessica D'Arcy, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, Ncuti Gatwa, Shailene Woodley, Vilhelm Blomgren, Wendy Nottingham

Summary: A pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, Last Letter from Your Lover follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center. As she uncovers the story behind Jennifer StirlingA pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, Last Letter from Your Lover follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center. As she uncovers the story behind Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley), the wife of a wealthy industrialist, and Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner) the financial journalist assigned to cover him, a love story of Ellie’s own begins to unfold with the assistance of an earnest and endearing archivist (Nabhaan Rizwan) who helps her track down more letters. [Netflix]… Expand

Director: Augustine Frizzell

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 110 min

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Simran Hans

Aug 9, 2021

Indecision and miscommunication, it turns out, are timeless. Sexiness less so, with Jones and Rizwan not quite able to summon the smouldering chemistry of Woodley and Turner. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Jul 22, 2021

Even when the story falters, or becomes astonishingly silly, there’s still plenty to keep you gazing at the surface. Read full review

The Playlist Marya E. Gates

Jul 22, 2021

Ultimately The Last Letter From Your Lover is exactly like the beach read from which it was adapted: lavish, breezy, and inconsequential. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jul 22, 2021

[The] story never fully comes into focus. You catch glimpses of it in between the busy, mechanical lurchings of the plot, in the swirling movement of a camera pan and the ardent commitment of the actors. Read full review

Rachel LaBonte

Jul 23, 2021

The Last Letter From Your Lover is a charming look at two love stories, and while it's hardly anything new, the film holds plenty of warmth. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Jul 22, 2021

At best, it’s a suitable companion piece to the novel; at worst, it’s a lackluster feature bolstered only briefly by flashes of real human emotion. Read full review

The Guardian Adrian Horton

Jul 22, 2021

The central romance here is, on paper, a love for the ages, a story of all-consuming passion. It’s not quite so in practice. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jul 25, 2021

It looks good, mostly in the storyline from the time of Shailene Woodley's character, but so what?
The film is just a big glossy, sentimental and corny piece of nothing.

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Veetw

Jul 28, 2021

It was a terrible adaptation of such a beautiful book. The actors did not have chemistry. It could have been done so well but it felt thrown together with no real care.

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