No, thats not why youll walk away from the movie red-eyed and sniffling.
Audiences didnt flock to this award-winning British theater work because of the temporal aspect, however.
Its, er, complicated.)
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in ‘We Live in Time.‘Peter Mountain/A24
The end is the middle, while the middle is the beginning, etc., etc.
You feel like hes maturing into a new, slightly less precious leading-man phase here.
Come for the jumble-puzzleScenes From a Marriage,sans an actual marriage for most of the narrative.
Stay for the connection that these two communicate wonderfully enough that you almost dont mind the storytelling mind games.
)We Live in Timeis an actors movie, by necessity if not always by design.
You know where the destination ends before the movies even begun.
Pugh and Garfield make the endgame worth the journey, no matter where you place it.