Dir. John Crowley
2024 | 107 mins | UK, France
Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh

Showing Times

• Fri 10 Jan: 1pm + 6.15pm
• Sat 11 Jan: 1.10pm + 6.15pm
• Mon 13 Jan: 1pm + 8.20pm
• Tue 14 Jan: 1pm + 6pm
• Wed 15 Jan: 1pm + 8.20pm
• Thu 16 Jan: 1pm + 5.50pm

Starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield as a couple falling in love and reaching a painful crossroads, We Live in Time brings wonderful chemistry and brilliant poignancy to the ever-appealing weepie.

Almut (Pugh), an ambitous and Tobias (Garfield), a sensitive divorcée advertising executive who proudly works for Weetabix are madly in love with each other and their beautiful daughter Ella, who keeps them united and driven. When a shattering cancer diagnosis threatens all they have built together the couple weigh up how best to spend their precious time together.

Delivered in an unconventional, non-chronological route through the steps that sparked thier love. We go from ultimate meet-cute (when Amult crashes her Mini Cooper into Tobias as he scoffs cholocate organces on the side of the road, in his dressing gown) covering joy and sorrow, connection and distance, birth and death: the contradictions that make up our lives are brilliantly juxtaposed in wonderfully conceived, and at times hilrous moments. Director John Crowley (Brooklyn) has shown a rare facility in capturing characters at pivotal, high-drama moments, breaking free from cliché by carving out a tender and humane focus. Backed by two awards-contender performances from a pair of young actors with a unique combination of charisma and dramatic skill, this is perfectly crafted portrait of the joys and pains of family life, drawn into focus by the horror of our mortality.

BBFC Rating

Rated 15 – strong language, sex