We Live in Time made me weep until I couldn’t cry any more tears
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We Live in Time, the Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh team-up we’ve eagerly been waiting for, is a heartstring-pulling weep-fest. Specifically, to the extent that my tears rolled down my cheeks and reached my neck – and that’s not usually the case.
In truth, I am a cry-baby – easily reduced to tears by the news or a cheesy montage – but it’s not often I find my collar wet afterwards. And given that assessment, I think that even the harder hearted among us will ‘get something in their eye’ a couple of times over the course of the film.
Garfield and Pugh are as dreamy a team as you’d hope playing Almut and Tobias, a couple with the slightly unusual meet-cute of a road accident who navigate the beautiful highs and devastating lows of life together. Not only do they utterly convince as a couple with an easy and relaxed chemistry, but they also convince as real people forging a life together. I mean, Tobias works for Weetabix in IT! And he’s dealing with a divorce.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Pugh, meanwhile – as a keen foodie in real life – plays a chef and restaurant owner on the rise, which sees her woo Tobias with her ‘tiny Bavarian sausage’ after the car crash.
It’s no secret that Almut is diagnosed with cancer during we Live in Time, but what has been kept under wraps is how much the movie is about everything else too: the bigger questions, the complicated and messy feelings, and the tough decisions that have to be made. And that comes into play during other major milestones and challenges in their relationship as well, which will be relatable to many.
