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Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #111. Last Letter from Your Lover – Augustine Frizzell

Published on December 31, 2019

Last Letter from Your Lover

Director Augustine Frizzell commenced a London-set Canadian production of Last Letter from Your Lover for her sophomore feature not much time after putting out some television work in a pair of episodes for Sweetbitter. A Netflix project based on the best-selling novel by Jojo Moyes; produced by Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Stephen Traynor, Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss, Frizzell nabs Shailene Woodley and Felicity Jones (both executive producing) to headline, with Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, Callum Turner and Ncuti Gatwa also in the cast. Frizzell’s first feature, Never Goin’ Back, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was also programmed in SXSW.

Gist: Jones stars as a journalist in contemporary London who uncovers a series of love letters which recount a star-crossed love affair from the 1960s and she becomes obsessed with tracking them down to find out how their story ended.

Release Date/Prediction: Filming began in October 2019 in Mallorca and London, and we expect Frizzell’s latest to score a premiere at TIFF 2020.

Nicholas Bell

Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.