‘We Live In Time’ Review: Andrew Garfield And Florence Pugh Create Delicious Chemistry In Decade-Spanning Rom-Com – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comThe idea of a non-linear time-spanning look at a marriage is not new. The absolute pinnacle of the idea still to me is director Stanley Donen’s and writer Fredric Raphael’s wonderfully sophisticated 1967 comedy Two For the Road, in which Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney flip back and forth in the course of their 12-year marriage.
It was so ahead of its time, not just with the idea but in the editing technique used throughout. An absolute classic that didn’t get its full due in its day.
Now the latest in this subgenre is We Live In Time, the romantic comedy from director John Crowley (Boy A, Brooklyn)and writer Nick Payne, which attempts to chronicle the decade-old relationship and marriage between Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield).
The style isn’t as tricky as Two For the Road’s, but what it undeniably shares in common is a clear chemistry between its leads.
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