"I am guilty of looking ahead instead of right in front of me. At you."
As if there weren't enough feels from the arrival of the new year, Brooklyn director John Crowley rocks up to cinemas with a two-hander about the magic and messiness of our numbered days.
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For this how-to in screen chemistry, Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield play Almut and Tobias, a mismatch-in-theory-but-perfect-in-practice couple who meet under very strange circumstances, fall in love, and, as Crowley puts it, discover that "life has other ideas" for them.
If you're a big fan of, say, Before Sunrise, Jerry Maguire (there's a riff on it in one scene), The Notebook, or any other romance that screens on a loop in both head and heart, then you should play gooseberry here.
Playing out of sequence, We Live in Time goes back and forth in you know what but doesn't feel like it's showing off or shackled to that set-up - it's pacy and always makes sure you want to know what's happening next/previously.
You may need to forgive the whimsy of Almut and Tobias's first no-briefs encounter, and there is a tendency to over-egg (and cuddle) Garfield's character as The Most Ideal Man Ever, but the film still packs some wallop and Pugh is superb throughout.
An inspirational way to start 2025.
