Old-fashioned romance and the lost art of snail mail

The Last Letter From Your Lover stars Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner.
The Last Letter From Your Lover stars Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner. PHOTO: NETFLIX
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Romantic dramas are often dismissed as "chick flicks", but Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones - stars of The Last Letter From Your Lover - feel the genre is making a comeback.

In the new film, now streaming on Netflix, Jones plays Ellie, a reporter who stumbles across a trove of mysterious love letters written by a woman named Jennifer (Woodley) and her lover in 1965.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on August 02, 2021, with the headline Old-fashioned romance and the lost art of snail mail. Subscribe