The Last Letter From Your Lover
I enjoyed this movie while I watched it, but with hindsight it was riddled with some bizarre plot holes and was just overly contrived.
What was good, the styling and cinematography was ravishing and definitely brought up this movie. From the wallpapers to the interiors, not to mention the hair and the fabulous sixties fashions, this aspect was a treat and then set this is the Côte d'Azur how could you fail.
The whole ensemble was committed, but Jennifer Stirling played by Shailene Woodley was a triumph of making some terrible scenarios and clunky script work. Callum Turner dominated his scenes and just gets better and better!
The main problems,
I could see little romance, a decadent wife of a industrialist embarks, out of boredom, on a tawdry holiday romance. She then flirts with the idea of running away from her "awful" marriage. Due to circumstance this fails, she then has a child and lives the next 30 years with her "terrible" husband for fear her child is taken from her.
Of course this is drivel, the husband stood by her knowing her folly, and despite being cuckolded he clearly loved her and seemed very kind to her, if she had wanted to leave she could have left the minute the child reached 16, the laws on divorce changed in 1971 so she was not trapped, and her lover was a well known journalist in New York, hardly difficult to track down.
The societal comment on the state of romanticism today, portrayed by Ellie and Rory, reflected how much today is all about me, me and more me, hardly convincing when it is self-evident that the bedrock of the United Kingdom is still, in the main, the traditional family unit.
Overall, this is a weak 6 out of 10,
I enjoyed this movie while I watched it, but with hindsight it was riddled with some bizarre plot holes and was just overly contrived.
What was good, the styling and cinematography was ravishing and definitely brought up this movie. From the wallpapers to the interiors, not to mention the hair and the fabulous sixties fashions, this aspect was a treat and then set this is the Côte d'Azur how could you fail.
The whole ensemble was committed, but Jennifer Stirling played by Shailene Woodley was a triumph of making some terrible scenarios and clunky script work. Callum Turner dominated his scenes and just gets better and better!
The main problems,
I could see little romance, a decadent wife of a industrialist embarks, out of boredom, on a tawdry holiday romance. She then flirts with the idea of running away from her "awful" marriage. Due to circumstance this fails, she then has a child and lives the next 30 years with her "terrible" husband for fear her child is taken from her.
Of course this is drivel, the husband stood by her knowing her folly, and despite being cuckolded he clearly loved her and seemed very kind to her, if she had wanted to leave she could have left the minute the child reached 16, the laws on divorce changed in 1971 so she was not trapped, and her lover was a well known journalist in New York, hardly difficult to track down.
The societal comment on the state of romanticism today, portrayed by Ellie and Rory, reflected how much today is all about me, me and more me, hardly convincing when it is self-evident that the bedrock of the United Kingdom is still, in the main, the traditional family unit.
Overall, this is a weak 6 out of 10,