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Technology has seen things shift too, with contemporary films replacing letters with emails or instant messaging.
Were probably not far off from a film where the primary form of communication happens via Instagram DM.
Until that fateful day, these are the essential movies about letters.
As Stefan reads the letter, he learns all about Lisas life and the way their lives unexpectedly intertwine.
Cause for Alarm!
(1951)
This intimate kitchen noir finds George (Barry Sullivan) stewing away in bed.
But as Tanakas melodramatic and elegiac film shows us, beauty often comes from the most unexpected places.
News From Home(1977)
Chantal Akermans avant-gardeNews From Homeis deliberately exhausting.
Beaches(1988)
This lovely weepie follows the lifelong friendship between C.C.
Bloom (Bette Midler) and Hillary Whitney (Barbara Hershey).
Bonus points for casting: Mayim Bialik plays young C.C., bearing an astonishing resemblance to Midler.
La Ceremonie(1995)
French master Claude ChabrolsLa Ceremonieprovided vital inspiration for Bong Joon-hosParasite.
Jeanne has a long-standing dislike of the family Sophie works for, and she gradually turns Sophie against them.
Meg Ryan is Kathleen Kelly, owner of an independent bookshop (named The Shop Around the Corner).
But shes wrong, and she knows it.
Their private letters to their loved ones offer up the vulnerability theyre forced to keep at bay.
ButLetters to Juliet, about a fact-checker starting her writing career, is the better film.
Sophie joins them and uncovers an unanswered letter from the 1950s.
