Filmmaker Augustine Frizzell made her directorial debut with the 2018 indie film “Never Goin’ Back,” which was beloved at Sundance and eventually got picked up by A24. She’s quickly graduated to a bigger canvas in the sweeping romantic love story for Netflix, “Last Letter From Your Lover,” her first movie with stars and a big cast.
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The movie stars Felicity Jones, Callum Turner, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, and Shailene Woodley. The narrative centers on a forbidden love affair between a 1960s couple (Woodley and Turner) uncovered by an ambitious present-day journalist (Jones) after finding a trove of secret love letters. The film is an adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ sweeping, romantic novel. Here’s the offSynopsis:
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A pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center. As she uncovers the story behind Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley), the wife of a wealthy industrialist, and Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner), the financial journalist assigned to cover him, a love story of Ellie’s own begins to unfold with the assistance of an earnest and endearing archivist (Nabhaan Rizwan) who helps her track down more letters. Based on the novel by Jojo Moyes and directed by Augustine Frizzell.
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“The Last Letter From Your Lover” arrives on Netflix on July 23. Watch the first trailer below.
