𝐖𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 🎬

Director John Crowley is the film maker behind my all-time favourite Saoirse Ronan movie – Brooklyn (no small feat in a career of gems) so I approached his latest, We Live in Time with some level of excitement. The tragic romantic drama is helmed by two of the UK’s brightest talents, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, making it an all-round enticing package.

Chef Almut (Pugh) hits recent divorcee Tobias (Garfield) with her car. It’s a pretty great meet cute. After taking him for an apology dinner sparks fly between the two, and pretty instantly they are embarking on a relationship for the ages. We Live in Time follows a non-linear story, flitting back and fore between multiple points in the couple’s lives as they slowly fall in love and start a family.

Yet as we jump back and fore in the timeline of their love story we never reach beyond a certain point. This is a tragedy after all, and a few years into their relationship Almut learns she has cancer. All the following great and significant moments we see are coloured by this knowledge, as we watch a young couple attempt to make the most of every single moment they have together with no certainty of how long it will last.

Ultimately, I just felt a little emotionally blue-balled by this film. I’d heard its reputation and I’d gone in ready to have a good cry, only to be left feeling a little cold and unbothered about it all. Still, it was clearly effective for the majority of the rest of the audience as there was barely a dry eye in the house; so, go in with no expectations and you’re likely to leave satisfied. Whether or not audiences fall in love with We Live in Time they’ll certainly fall in love with Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.