We Live in Time (in-person only)

Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh and Grace Delaney

Starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield as a couple falling in love and reaching a painful crossroads, We Live in Time brings wonderful chemistry and brilliant poignancy to the ever-appealing weepie. Pugh is Almut, a fiery chef bending towards Garfield’s sensitive divorcée advertising executive. When they meet, they’re unsure about building a family, but as time passes, their daughter Ella (Grace Delaney) unites them, until a shattering cancer diagnosis threatens all they have built together.

Scripted by playwright Nick Payne (Constellations), the film takes an unconventional non-chronological route through the steps that lead the couple to a moment of mortal stakes. Joy and sorrow, connection and distance, birth and death: the contradictions that make up our lives are brilliantly juxtaposed in wonderfully conceived moments. John Crowley – in films such as Brooklyn and Is Anybody There? – has shown a rare facility in capturing characters at pivotal, high-drama moments, breaking free from cliché by carving out a tender and humane focus. Backed by two awards-contender performances from a pair of young actors with a unique combination of charisma and dramatic skill, this is perfectly crafted portrait of the joys and pains of family life, drawn into focus by the horror of our mortality.