Editor’s note: This story was originally published on October 10, 2024. “ We Live in Time ” will be available on Video on Demand platforms such as Prime Video, Google Play, and Apple TV on November 26 and is now available for pre-order in the UHD format. After nearly two decades, recollections may indeed vary.
Consider this: When filmmaker John Crowley cast rising star Andrew Garfield in his 2007 drama “Boy A,” Garfield almost didn’t take the part. Or, wait, did he? “We offered you the part,” Crowley said during a recent interview with IndieWire and his now two-time star. “And you said yes, and you then said no.
” Garfield looked shocked. “Did I say no?” the actor asked, eyes pinging between Zoom windows. Either way: Garfield did take the part in the heartbreaking British drama, and now, 17 years later, he and Crowley have reunited for “We Live in Time,” a tear-soaked drama of a different kind .
Based on Nick Payne’s screenplay, the nonlinear love story follows the buttoned-up Tobias (Garfield) and the spunky Almut ( Florence Pugh ) over the course of a decade-long relationship that is, suffice it to say, filled with both high highs and extremely low lows. A bit of a throwback weepie, it might not be the most obvious follow-up for Crowley and Garfield, until you look a bit more closely: Both films are about the power (and price) of human emotion, the need for domestic comforts, and what happens when people truly open themselves up to each other. W.
