It’s not hard to spend a few hours watching Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield fall in love. In “We Live In Time,” filmmaker John Crowley puts the audience close and personal with this photogenic British couple through the highs and lows of relationships in their 30s.
Everyone starts to think about the idea of time and not having enough of it to do everything they want at some point. But it seems to hit many of us acutely in that tricky, lovely third decade. There’s that cruel biological clock, of course, but also careers, homes and families getting older. Throw a cancer diagnosis in there and that timer gets ever more aggressive.
While we, and Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh), do indeed live in time, as we’re constantly reminded in big and small ways – clocks and stopwatches are ever-present, literally and metaphorically – the movie hovers above it. The storytelling jumps back and forth through time like a scattershot memory as we piece…
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