We Live in Time

This film represents smart, crowd-pleasing sensitivity, and it will prove no less irresistible to its impassioned yet underserved audience. The film tackles late-stage cancer and Londoners getting their life together. The film's time-jumping structure flits between early courtship and the complicated pregnancy to Almut's diagnosis. Nick Payne's script manages to convey the pain of determining how to spend precious time without confusion or making it feel like a desperate gimmick.

It's an entertaining, high-minded take on a story audience have seen before, with its cast stretching both movie star and actor muscles-and also displaying ease with the comedic and dramatic. It daringly-but successfully-is insular, only concerned with the two and their world. As it is, Florence Pugh-as the showier role-really impresses, bringing intricate and hair-raising emotion to scenes seen a thousand times over.

This film is an enormously charming, full-throated romantic drama that knows precisely how to make us swoon and also how to make us sad.

Staff:

Directed by: John Crowley

Written by: Nick Payne

Produced by: Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke, and Guy Heeley

Starring: Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh

Cinematography: Stuart Bentley

Edited by: Justine Wright

Music by: Bryce Dessner

Production companies: Film4 and SunnyMarch

Distributed by: StudioCanal

Release date: 11 October 2024

Running time: 108 minutes