The adaptation of Jojo Moyes’s 2012 novel, starring Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones, toggles between two love stories and shortchanges both
The Last Letter from Your Lover, a
Netflix adaptation of a 2012 Jojo Moyes novel, is pitched as a
Russian doll of sweeping romances, a double punch of feeling for steamy summer nights in. The
trailer practically gives the whole plot away – an awkward pair of journalists in the present fall for each other as they piece together an illicit love affair from the past through lost love letters, set to soaring
music and the promise that “some love stories deserve a second chance”. The straightforward, unabashedly sentimental romance follows a string of middling original romantic comedies from the streaming service, from Set It Up to Always Be My Maybe.
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