Synopsis
A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
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Cast
- Shailene WoodleyJennifer Stirling
- Felicity JonesEllie Haworth
- Callum TurnerAnthony O'Hare
- Joe AlwynLawrence Stirling
- Nabhaan RizwanRory McCallan
- Ncuti GatwaNick
- Emma AppletonHannah
- Christian BrassingtonDominic
- Alice Orr-EwingYvonne
- Lee KnightFrancis
Recommendations
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Last Letter From Your Lover is a pleasant watch, and will charm romance enthusiasts. - 70
Time
Even when the story falters, or becomes astonishingly silly, there’s still plenty to keep you gazing at the surface. - 67
The Playlist
Ultimately The Last Letter From Your Lover is exactly like the beach read from which it was adapted: lavish, breezy, and inconsequential. - 63
Slant Magazine
Across the film, director Augustine Frizzell balances a dynamic aesthetic energy with a generosity of spirit. - 60
Los Angeles Times
[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. - 60
The New York Times
In short, it too efficiently glosses over multiple plotlines to have much of an emotional impact. What remains are mostly generic beats. Still, the formula is engrossing enough, and its midcentury vintage appeal — the pillbox hats, headscarves and swanky soirees — is particularly seductive. - 58
IndieWire
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. - 58
The A.V. Club
What the adaptation has going for it is two charismatic young stars, Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley, pitching in to tell an enjoyable but extremely conventional story.
