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we live in time

★★★★

starring: florence pugh, andrew garfield, lee braithwaite, and adam james

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REVIEWER: lyall carter

After an unusual encounter, a talented chef and a recently divorcée fall in love and build the home and family they've always dreamed of, until a painful truth puts their love story to the test.

While there wasn’t the cinematic event that was the Barbenheimer phenomenon last year, there were a few films that burst through the cultural noise. While We Live in Time played at a film festival in NZ, its now hit our shores on a wide release, was one such film that created a bit of noise. While presumably made for a modest amount without a massive publicity budget, the film managed to go viral through the ghoulish merry-go-round horse adoring the movie’s poster. We Live in Time is a beautifully crafted and heart rending meditation on love and loss anchored by wondrous performances from Pugh and Garfield. 

 

Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together -- falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family - a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley’s decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.

 

We Live in Time quite possibly could have just been your typical romance drama if it weren’t for a couple of important elements. Firstly, director John Crowley, who crafted one of the most superb and criminally underrated romantic dramas of the last decade in Brooklyn, knows how to make this kind of movie. Not only does he find the beauty in the mundane comings and goings of life but he also manages not to falsely ratchet up the emotion of a heartbreaking scene. He does it with such subtlety that it feels lived in, there is a truth that rings from it. 

 

And there is a particular tragedy to this film; a young couple, just starting out, brought to their knees by a heartbreaking diagnosis. Crowley artfully manages to hold space for both Almut’s diagnosis but also Tobias’ contained reaction to it; it truly is masterful. 

 

But if it wasn’t for the actors that inhabit these two characters this film would be a muted version of its true self. Pugh is brilliant here embodying all the stages of grief with fire, fury, and tears. Garfield’s performance is cloaked in subtly, hiding his agony in plain, painful sight. 

 

We Live in Time is a beautifully crafted and heart rending meditation on love and loss anchored by wondrous performances from Pugh and Garfield.

★★★★

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