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We Live in Time is a new-school classic with many old-school tendencies.
Director John Crowley ’s rom-dramedy traces the relationship between its principal characters, Brits Almut (Pugh) and Tobias ( Garfield ) from start to tragic end.
Almut is a modern gal who keeps condoms in a bedside drawer and is devoted to her career as a chef.
We Live in Time has the standard-setting feel of a decades-old movie.
Pugh and Garfield do a convincing job of conveying love for each other.
The film doesn’t do much to interrogate Tobias ’ daftness.
Attempts at levity here can also be tonally jarring.
As legacies go, Almut ’s is awfully undercooked.
She wants to have it all and dies as a consequence.
So too does We Live in Time want to be many things in its striving to transcend the brutal constraints of these sorts of romances.
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