The Last Letter From Your Lover – ABC Film Challenge – Female Director – L – The Last Letter From your Love – Movie Review
Director: Augustine Frizzell
Writer: Nick Payne, Esta Spalding, Jojo Moyes (Screenplay)
Cast
- Felicity Jones (Rogue One)
- Callum Turner (Green Room)
- Joe Alwyn (The Favourite)
- Nabhaan Rizwan (1917)
- Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars)
Plot: A pair of interwoven stories set in the past and present follow an ambitious journalist determined to solve the mystery of a forbidden love affair at the center of a trove of secret love letters from 1965.
Runtime: 1 Hour 50 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: The Last Letter From Your Lover starts when an ambitious journalist Ellie Haworth (Jones) is looking for her latest story. She learns of a series of secret letters from Jennifer Stirling (Woodley) in 1965. The more Ellie dives into the letters, the more secrets about this famous married woman she learns of.
When Ellie learns of the secret affair with Anthony O’Hare (Turner) she wants to learn more. This leads her down a rabbit hole of more letters, where she can put together a story of their love together.
Verdict on The Last Letter From Your Lover
The Last Letter From Your Lover is a romantic drama following a journalist trying to learn more about a secret love of a famous person. She gets access to her secret letters and starts looking for a new story, all while finding love herself.
This is a movie that gets to explore the fascination with forbidden love and wanting the perfect love. It shows us how the characters get caught up in the middle of trying to find a story. There isn’t too much to go on with the fact it was meant to be a private affair that leads into the bigger love story. It feels like Ellie is just filling her empty life with a love story between two wealthy people.
Final Thoughts – The Last Letter From Your Lover is more focused on the fantasy of love than understanding it.
