Movie Number 5 of 2025
The Movie: We Live in Time
The Cinema: Hoyts Victoria Gardens
Stars: 4
Shakespeare said something along the lines of course of true love never did run smooth, and the love affair between Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) is an attestation to this in We Live in Time. Their bittersweet life, portrayed in this hour and fifty-minute film, is engaging and compelling and definitely worth a look.
Set in Britain, Almut is a talented and driven chef. She meets Tobias, a corporate lackey in the most unusual of ways, and things go on from there.
The thing with this film is that it is not told in a linear way, jumping around the ten-year relationship from their first meeting to Tobias' divorce, Almut's health issues and all sorts of hassles which turn up in the lives of many couples. I won't say too much about the story. Taking tissues is a good thing to do.
But it's not all gloom and doom. John Crowley directs this charming film, infusing it with humour and pathos in equal measure. Crowley showed a similar hand in his direction of Brooklyn. It helps that Pugh and Garfield are all over there characters and their ensuing relationship, making it both believable and charming,
What won't be to everybody's taste is the non-linear storytelling, which jumps back and forth. It's not confusing, but some may not like it.
The other thing I loved about this is that it shows London in a lovely light. It made me rather homesick.
Some may find this film a bit too sentimental, and a little unreasonable, especially as Almut struggles with her health. Yet it does address many of the issues most couples with go through, from parenthood, to careers, to differing wants, even down to getting a dog. It really rang true, for the most part.
This was a good movie to relax into and enjoy on a Saturday night.
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