Pierce Brosnan in a Sad Irish Love Story? Someone's Gonna Cry in Public
Pierce Brosnan just walked out of a Bond movie—and into your feelings. The full trailer for Four Letters of Love just dropped, and it's basically emotional sabotage disguised as an arthouse romance.
Old-school lovers. Tragic backstories. Ghosts. A convent. Did Nicholas Sparks get reincarnated in County Galway with a literary upgrade? Twitter's already sniffling.
Why This Trailer Is a Total Heart-Wrecker
Let's start here: Four Letters of Love is based on Niall Williams' 1997 novel—aka your mom's favorite book club pick and the reason she cried into a teacup that one winter.
Now it's a movie. And the trailer? Pure vibes. Rain-soaked cliffs. Children with faraway stares. Helena Bonham Carter chain-smoking sadness like it's a sport.
And then there's Brosnan, wielding painter's brushes and fatherly disappointment with the same suave melancholy he used to use on martinis and martyrs.
The bonkers detail? The main love interests—Nicholas and Isabel—barely share screen time in the trailer. It's like The Notebook if Noah and Allie were separated by 20 years, an act of God, and an existential crisis about oil painting.
A savage comparison? Imagine Atonement had a baby with The Lovely Bones, and that baby grew up reading Wuthering Heights in a thunderstorm.
The Hidden Story: Why Romantic Dramas Keep Getting Sadder
There's something weird (and maybe brilliant) happening in the genre. Modern romance trailers aren't about the lovers—they're about the longing. It's like the entire industry decided actual joy is overrated and traded it for lyrical suffering.
And Four Letters of Love goes all in.
It's not the first film to lean into the “separated soulmates across time and tragedy” trope. But unlike Netflix's algorithmic weepfests (The Last Letter from Your Lover, anyone?), this one drips with Irish myth and Catholic guilt—two ingredients that, when combined, hit harder than a dozen sad piano chords.
Bonus irony: Polly Steele, the director, once helmed Let Me Go, a real-life trauma drama about intergenerational scars. This ain't her first cry rodeo.
Would You Watch This—or Emotionally Evaporate in a Theater?
Let's be honest: you'll either fall for this like it's your high school poetry teacher, or roll your eyes so hard they end up in Dublin.
Your move.
