The film takes viewers back to those bucolic summer days in France, when the pair first met. She realizes she was in a terrible car accident while on her way to meet her lover, Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner), a journalist with whom she started an affair six months prior. Working with cinematographer George Steel, the director also manages to give each era a distinct visual language: Jennifer’s London is marked by a soft-focus effect and possesses a dream-like, almost ethereal quality Ellie’s London is marked by persistent overcast skies and the grittiness of contemporary life.īack in 1965, Jennifer slowly pieces together her life. Frizzell assembles scenes to create a subtle sense of continuity - showing Ellie emerging from an elevator with similar golden lighting to Jennifer’s dining room, or having the two women read aloud the same letters to transition between timelines. The Last Letter From Your Lover moves seamlessly between its two periods, with Jennifer’s and Ellie’s stories unfolding at a satisfying pace. Their partnership blossoms into its own love story. Enthralled by the heartfelt correspondence, Ellie enlists the help of the newspaper archivist, Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan), and embarks on a journey to find more of the notes and uncover the lovers’ identities. The women’s fates intersect when Ellie’s next assignment leads her to the newspaper archives, where she finds a collection of love letters addressed to Jennifer from a signer who only goes by Boot, or occasionally B. She’s a newspaper reporter for The London Chronicle, and she’s late. When she realizes the man wants to see her again, Ellie, who just broke off an eight-year relationship, bolts out the door and heads to work. In present-day London, Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones) wakes up in a stranger’s bed after a wild night out. Who is the stately blond man sitting next to her in the car? He says he is her husband Laurence (Joe Alwyn), but can she be sure? And what about the petite older woman at the entrance of their palatial home, dressed in a crisp blue suit, addressing her as “madam”? She can’t remember why there is a scar on her face or shake this unsettling feeling that everyone is hiding something from her. In 1965 London, American-born socialite Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) returns from the hospital struggling to remember entire parts of her life.
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Felicity Jones, Callum Turner, Nabhaan Rizwan, Joe Alwyn
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