Pablo O. Scholz
07/24/2021 10:23 PM
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Updated 07/24/2021 11:45 PM
For hopeless romantics, for those who believe in eternal love at first sight and who stands the test of time, The Last Love Letter, featuring
Felicity Jones
(
The Theory of Everything
,
Rogue One
) and Shailene Woodley (
The Descendants
), It will be a paunch to end up with snot out.
Skeptical in love affairs, abstain.
If the phrase with which the director Augustine Frizzelle chooses to open her film is "Darling, I don't live when I'm not with you", taken from
Farewell to Arms
, by Ernest Hemingway, those that are heard from now on come with notice, and sweetener included : "I would love you so much that it would consume me."
Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner: a forbidden love in the '60s.
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"My heart swells."
"Take advantage of this that is real, true and infinite."
"You had lost me, but not lost."
And we could go on to infinity, and beyond.
Currently, Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan) and Ellie (Felicity Jones).
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Based on a best seller
The film is based on a best seller that sold 3 million copies and was translated into 33 languages.
Its author is Jojo Moyes, the same as
Yo Before You
, which was also a film, with Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin, and the story does not save back and forth.
The plot follows two timelines, one in 1965 and the other in the present, both in London.
The one from the past (which also runs backwards, on the French Riviera, and forwards) has Jennifer Sterling, the young wife of a despotic and British young businessman like her.
Shailene Woodley and a wardrobe that mimics that of Grace Kelly.
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The other focuses on Ellie, the journalist who makes up Felicity Jones, who is the one behind the title card.
And that as in the original has the most direct title of
The Last Letter from Your Lover
, there is a forbidden love.
Of course, without email or whatsapp, the communication between Jenny and Anthony is somewhat remote, and allows us to understand why Jenny is always late everywhere.
Ellie is a journalist who follows the tracks of a forbidden love from the present.
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Andrew is a journalist like Ellie in the present, and meets Jenny when she goes to interview her husband on the French Riviera.
Yes, there, in a mansion with huge terraces, sun loungers overlooking the sea, beautiful sunsets.
There he meets her.
The letters in question are found by Ellie in her fifties from years later, when she was
looking for material for a note
in the
London Chronicle's
archive
.
What were they doing there?
The finance journalist and the businessman's wife walk along the French Riviera.
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"The difference between passionate love and companionship, I have never seen it like this," his article praises Ellie, the file manager, with whom - we know immediately - is going to fall in love (and vice versa).
Ellie has a crush on her, like Jenny in her time.
The problem is that Jenny, in 1965, does not remember anything.
She returns home from the hospital with a scar on her left cheek, and she doesn't even remember her husband's name.
"Why don't we have children?" She asks a friend, intrigued.
"Because your husband travels a lot," she explains.
Shailene Woodley, the actress of "The Descendants", "Fault In Our Stars" and "Big Little Lies".
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So everything is difficult in this truncated love story, forbidden, but soon the lagoons will become clear like water.
The director Augustine Frizzell, who directed the pilot chapter of
Euphoria
and the long
Never Goin 'Back
, launches into this story full of mystery, secrets and betrayals, but all told like in a soap opera de luxe.
The film is based on a best seller by the same author of "Me Before You."
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Because everything looks impeccable (the costumes are designed by Anna Robbins,
Downtown Abbey
, with Shailene it looks like Grace Kelly, or Jacqueline Kennedy; the photograph is by George Steel, responsible for the lighting of the first season of
Peaky Blinders
).
Neither Felicity Jones nor Shailene Woodley (both are also listed as executive producers of the film) are too disheveled or reach the interpretive level that we knew them.
Shailene Woodley is also listed as a producer on the film.
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It does not matter, because they do not blush when they have to say what the script tells them, and from the armchair at home, with a coffee, you can have a pleasant time.
No more.
"The last love letter"
Good
Romantic drama.
UK / USA, 2021.
Original title:
The Last Letter From Your Lover
.
110 ', SAM 13.
From:
Augustine Frizzell.
Featuring:
Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, Callum Turner.
Available on:
Netflix.
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