PREVIEW: The Last Letter From Your Lover (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Shailene Woodley (The Fault In Our Stars), Callum Turner (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Nabhaan Rizwan (Mogul Mowgli), Joe Alwyn (The Favourite), Ncuti Gatwa (Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans), Diana Kent (Heavenly Creatures), Ben Cross (Chariots of Fire)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Augustine Frizzell (Never Goin’ Back), director; Nick Payne (The Sense of an Ending) and Esta Spalding (The Republic of Love), writers; Peter Czernin (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Stephen Traynor (The Captive), Simone Urdl (Away from Her) and Jennifer Weiss (Year of the Carnivore), producers; Daniel Hart (The Old Man & The Gun), composer; George Steel (The Aeronauts), cinematographer; Melanie Oliver (The Danish Girl), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 2003, young journalist Ellie (Jones) uncovers a series of love letters in the archives, which tell the romantic but tragic story of an affair in the 1960s, between a woman named Jennifer Stirling (Woodley) and Anthony O’Hare (Turner). Ellie soon becomes obsessed with discovering what happened to the young lovers, and how their story ultimately ends…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The decades-spanning romance novel by Me Before You author Jojo Moyes is adapted into a feel-good drama starring Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley (both of whom are also credited as executive producers).

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 6TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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