The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
Directed by Augustine Frizzell
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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What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Relevant context: The Last Letter from Your Lover comes from a novel by Jojo Moyes, who also wrote Me Before You (and its three sequels!), adapted into a movie starring Emilia Clarke.
Having previously made her name with the spiky, Sundance-stamped girls-gone-wild comedy “Never Goin’ Back,” director Augustine Frizzell doesn’t seem an obvious fit for any of the dewy, edgeless mini-movies that make up “The Last Letter From Your Lover”: Sure enough, she had no hand in the script, which playwright Nick Payne and author Esta Spalding have drawn with little great inspiration from the 2008 bestseller by Jojo Moyes, the same wildly popular romance novelist who wrote “Me Before You.”
Despite also being memorable for featuring one of the final performances of Chariots of Fire’s Ben Cross, Last Letter From Your Lover lacks the spirit, emotional rollercoaster, or truly engaging contemporary leads that lifted cinema’s only other attempt at adapting the much-loved Moyes – 2016’s Me Before You .
Me Before You , for example, sold millions of copies, before going on to inspire a hit box-office adaptation starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin.
Rather less objectionable than 2016’s ableist romantic fantasy “Me Before You,” another Moyes adaptation, “The Last Letter From Your Lover” is at least partly about the frustrations of love in any era, and via any channels of communication.
To be honest, I’m not that familiar with her work but I remember her other novel Me Before You was also made into a movie , which I have yet to see.
She works for The London Chronicle – an institution that exists only in romcoms such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Holiday (and in another Felicity Jones film, Like Crazy ) – a quaint, ramshackle building filled with quirky eccentrics that just so happens to have a labyrinthine (physical!
She needs a timelessness, like Blake Lively achieved in “The Age of Adaline,” to feel believable as a mid-century, upper-crust New York-bred socialite.