Jennifer is trapped in an unhappy marriage, and Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner), also known as “Boot,” gives her the chance to leave it all behind and move to New York with him. However, parallel storytelling does not work when Jennifer and Lawrence’s emotionally distant relationship sets the tone of the story and the film forgets Ellie and Rory’s budding romance. For a movie that aims to focus on two relationships, The Last Letter from Your Lover does its best to balance them out. The problem lies with its non-linear storytelling, and the film focuses on too much time going back and forth from the present to 1965, sometimes lingering too long in the ‘60s. One of the movie’s many flaws is that the story switches from Jennifer to Ellie, often cutting from deep and vulnerable moments between Jennifer and Anthony to funny and awkward moments between Ellie and Rory. Ellie’s budding love story with Rory is left on the side while Jennifer is given most of the spotlight to tell her story. The Last Letter from Your Lover is an interesting attempt to intersect the love stories of Jennifer and Ellie, but the structure gets messy. With the help of shy archivist Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan), she embarks on a journey to find the rest of the letters and the identity of the lovers in an illicit affair. Meanwhile, in the present time, Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), a journalist who works for The London Chronicle, discovers a letter addressed to Jennifer. When Jennifer discovers a letter inside a book addressed to her, written by a man named “Boot,” she revisits the past to remember her life before the accident. She struggles to remember her life married to Lawrence (Joe Alwyn) and wonders whether any of it is real or not. In 1965 London, socialite Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) returns home from the hospital suffering from amnesia after a car accident. With intersecting love stories of two women and emotions that don’t quite hit the right spots, the movie attempts to keep a lackluster romance on the right track. The Last Letter from Your Lover is an adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ novel of the same name, set in two time periods that involve epistolary romances. The bulk of the movie is a culmination of flashbacks, connecting and reconnecting with lovers in a different time period. Netflix’s new romantic drama, The Last Letter from Your Lover, is about two love stories entrenched together, while the story desperately tries to stay in the 1960s forever.
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