We Live in Time | Film Review

When a chance encounter brings Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) together, both of their lives are changed forever.

I was really really looking forward to this one, not only as a fan of both Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, but as a fan of rom-coms, happy or sad. I hadn't seen a new good rom-com in a while so this came at the perfect time.

I really liked this film.

At first I was a bit thrown off by the non-linear storytelling, and thought it detracted from the emotion that the story wanted us to feel, but I really liked it by the end. It made things feel really original.

Though I do still feel like it made the emotional moments less emotional. I would really like to see this in chronological order to see if that makes it feel more emotional than it did.

But in saying that, it's great that the story could jump around without ever feeling confusing. We always know exactly where we are, and what point of the characters' relationship we're in, and that's because it's written really well. We never have to be explicitly told anything to understand what's happening.

The film is held up by the chemistry between the actors, and there was a lot of it! Garfield and Pugh worked really well together, had amazing chemistry and played their parts really well.

I thought the film felt really authentic. It doesn't sugarcoat the hard things the couple goes through, and doesn't overexaggerate the nice things. This feels like watching the good and bad of a real couple going through real things.

The thing that surprised me the most was how funny it was. One scene in particular was so fun and funny that when I think about it, having seen the film a little while ago, it still puts a smile on my face. 

But having said all of that, it felt like something was missing. Maybe I didn't feel as connected to the characters as I could have, or maybe it was the way the story was told, but there was something stopping me from loving this story as much as I wanted to. It didn't make me feel what I needed to feel to fall in love with the characters.

So overall, I really liked this film and would definitely recommend it, but it didn't touch my heart the way I wanted it to.

7/10