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This movie doesn't really work. Poor development keeps the story at surface level so the viewer really isn't drawn into either relationship. The script keeps it there and the past era setting just isn't believable. More like people were just wearing groovy clothes found in a vintage shop. Music did little to create mood. Zero chemistry between either couple and, to be honest, both female lead characters weren't very likable.

I gave it three stars only because it's not the worse movie I've ever seen and managed to get to the end without shutting it off.

Having read this book and am a big fan of JoJo Moyes, I was looking forward to this adaptation. But there's zero chemistry between the leads (the lost lovers AND the contemporary lovers). There's hardly any backstory (the story itself is butchered), J's husband isn't threatening at all, is cardboard and seems bored by everything. I'm disappointed in Felicity Jones's performance (she's an Academy award winner!) and the Rory character is uninteresting and totally miscast.

Very disappointing.

I have seen Jones and Woodley before and they do quite well but my opinion about the male leads is quite in the minority here. I was waiting for Callum and Shailene to have some chemistry but it is flat. Having never seen Callum before, I think it was him but it was also the directing. Both he and Alwyn look like they are high schoolers play acting with professionals. The story line delivers by itself but everything else was a waste for these well established actresses.

I don't even know how i managed to finish it. Sure the characters are good-looking and the setting was romantic but the main character s just don't have any chemistry. You know when you thought you're about to be touched or moved by the scene but it just wont. Worse is its romanticizing cheating. I get it happens. But the movie even made me feel like "i will never ever want to cheat on my husband" because all i can think of Woodley's character is that she's so shallow and pathetic.

I love a good chick flick as much of the next person but I found little to no chemistry between either couple and I also did not feel any connection to any of the characters with the exception of maybe Rory who was hardly in the plot .

Of the 100s of romances out there you can find a better one - boring , pointless and without a real message.

3 stars for atleast trying but it felt rushed, and they left out so many important scenes from the book, so overall meh.

This book was published in 2012. Since then, the storyline has been done ad nauseum. But only Netflix could take a good enough book and turn it into something this bad.

I want to like this but lead actor's acting is not convincing and no chemistry with Woolley. Progression seems rushed. It's just meh.

The awful lack of chemistry between the characters destroyed the whole story. We never understand how and why any of the two romances start and as the movie goes on we are not sure if we even want to know. I was expecting a heart-fluttering romance, what a disappointment and a waste of two precious hours...

A journalist finds some old love letters in an archive and begins to investigate the old romance. Stars Felicity Jones.

I'm sorry but I switched this off after 45 minutes. I quite liked the modern story but the duo in the old romance turned me right off.