A
film review by Rachel Labonte for ScreenRant.com on July 22, 2021.
When
it comes to romance, Netflix has cemented itself as a home for romantic
comedies. Less frequent for the service are romantic dramas, though it appears
the streamer is starting to rectify this with The Last Letter from Your Lover. Based on the novel by Jojo Moyes (Me Before You), The Last
Letter from Your Lover takes on two well-known tropes* within the romance
genre and ties them together in a neat little bow. The result is a sweetly
earnest movie that is bound to tug at some heartstrings. 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.
Opening in 1965, The Last Letter from Your Lover finds society wife Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) struggling to recall what her life was like before a devastating car accident stole her memories. Her husband (Joe Alwyn) is distant, leading Jennifer to lead her own investigation. The discovery of a passionate note from a writer who signs it simply B pulls her back to the summer when she met Anthony O'Hare (Callum Turner), the charming journalist who was assigned to cover her husband, but fell for her instead. In the present day, fellow journalist Ellie (Felicity Jones) is attempting to pull her own life together when she finds the last of Anthony's letters to Jennifer. She then sets off on her own journey with archives worker Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan) to learn exactly what happened between the star-crossed lovers. [Labonte's rating: 3 stars out of 5 = 60%]
Opening in 1965, The Last Letter from Your Lover finds society wife Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) struggling to recall what her life was like before a devastating car accident stole her memories. Her husband (Joe Alwyn) is distant, leading Jennifer to lead her own investigation. The discovery of a passionate note from a writer who signs it simply B pulls her back to the summer when she met Anthony O'Hare (Callum Turner), the charming journalist who was assigned to cover her husband, but fell for her instead. In the present day, fellow journalist Ellie (Felicity Jones) is attempting to pull her own life together when she finds the last of Anthony's letters to Jennifer. She then sets off on her own journey with archives worker Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan) to learn exactly what happened between the star-crossed lovers. [Labonte's rating: 3 stars out of 5 = 60%]
*trope - a movie trope is a literary device for telling a story that
communicates something figurative or metaphorical. A trope can be as simple as
a common object. In this film one trope is the collection of love letters that
Ellie finds, a second trope is the auto accident that leaves Jennifer
without some memories that are important to the story, and a third trope is that there are two love stories running in parallel separated by fifty years.
Labels:
drama, romance
IMDb 67/100
MetaScore (critics=57, viewers=54)
RottenTomatoes Averages (critics=56, viewers=74)
Netflix
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