We Live in Time

November 1 – 5

7:00 pm nightly
1:30 Sunday Matinée
PG — 1hr 48min
2024 ‧ Romance / Drama

We Live in Time is a sincere, effervescent, and intimate tale of how we use our time here. It owes a great debt to generations of films about doomed romance but feels like something we haven’t really seen in the post-Covid era, at least not with actors this talented. Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together — falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family — a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley’s decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.

Through snapshots of their life together — falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family — a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley’s decade-spanning, deeply moving romance. 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.

There are times when one can almost visually see the buttons being pushed in We Live in Time. It’s not many films that can successfully weave two cancer diagnoses, a birth, a budding romance, and end of life into one film and not feel like it’s playing with the emotions of the audience. But I suspect that the people for whom this movie was made won’t care. There’s a reason we keep coming back to this dramatic subgenre, either lucky that we too have found the love of our lives or hoping that we’ll have a meet-cute to match Almut and Tobias.