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Few movies have understood the epistolary romance better than Nick Cassavetes’s The Notebook, and arguably no movie has done it as well since.

The Last Letter From Your Lover, on Netflix today, gives us all that juicy will-they-won’t-they romantic suspense, and it is, in my humble opinion, superior. Like The Notebook, it’s structured within a frame narrative, but instead of one London based romance, there are two. Shailene Woodley is a surprisingly believable wealthy ’60s housewife named Jenny who is recovering from amnesia — naturally, this is also an amnesia movie — and discovering, via letters written to her, the affair she had with a journalist who is primarily referred to as “Boot” but whose real name is Anthony O’Hare, played by the absolutely dreamy Callum Turner.

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Netflix’s new romantic drama The Last Letter from Your Lover is a breakout hit in both the U.S. and around the globe

FlixPatrol reports The Last Letter from Your Lover was the third most popular film on Netflix worldwide this week and the second most popular in the U.S.

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Netflix recently released the new romantic drama The Last Letter from Your Lover starring Felicity Jones, Shailene Woodley, and Joe Alwyn (Taylor Swift's boyfriend of many years), and fans (including myself) are all over social media trying to find out if Taylor herself was inspired by the film. Many of the songs on her folklore and evermore albums allude to the very same love affair that happens in the movie. Some pretty hard-core investigative work is going on on Twitter, and we are here to decipher which songs could possibly be movie-inspired!

Bestselling author Jojo Moyes is the undisputed queen of romance. Of her umpteen books, though, only two have been transformed into movies; Me Before You, and Head Full Of Honey.

Confession: I knew this movie would be for me, regardless of it being good or not, before I saw it. Anything that combines period glamour and unabashed horniness with a bout of sudden amnesia— sign me up! Throw in a journalist angrily eating a croissant out of spite on a deadline, as Ellie does before being allowed to enter the archive room, and I’m yours for life. But the kissing was a very welcome surprise. The Last Letter From Your Lover has great kissing. There’s kissing in a park, kissing in a club, kissing in a coat room, kissing in apartments, kissing on a train — and several near-kisses, which to be honest are the sexiest of all.

2020 was a year when production schedules were severely impacted by the pandemic, so news that a keenly anticipated new film was well underway came as welcome, good news. It was reported in October last year that Netflix had bought the global rights to The Last Letter from your Lover, a book by Jojo Moyes, the acclaimed author of Me Before You.

Jojo Moyes's 2008 romance novel is about a hidden affair, and a journalist who discovers evidence of it 40 years later. She becomes consumed with finding out how it ended.

If 2020 was the year of Zoom calls, could 2021 be time to return to traditional letter writing? Felicity Jones and Shailene Woodley's upcoming Netflix romance may have you feeling inspired to put pen to paper.