We Live In Time
Almut (Florence Pugh) is an up and coming chef in the U.K. culinary scene and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) is a soon to be divorced U.S. Citizen working and living in the U.K.. When a chance encounter brings the two together, a whirlwind love affair is spurred with learning to navigate the tapestry of life, what will the two weave together?
Written by Nick Payne and Directed by John Crowley this non-sequential love story aims to strike chords and pull heart strings through “clever reveals,” kind of like opening an advent calendar out of order, which serves the story and the art to an extent but ultimately reveals a Cream of Wheat romance that still manages to telegraph it’s anticlimactic end well in advance. In all, the performances and production value are top notch, but it’s not enough to keep this stale narrative from grounding out before the finish. If you’re looking for the feels, you’ll have to search elsewhere as the audience ends up too insulated from what tragedies life may bring. Running one hour and forty seven minutes, We Live in Time is rated R.