Cliff Notes – Netflix is quietly adding a ‘tearjerking’ fan favourite
- Release Date: We Live In Time, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, will be available on Netflix UK from July 5, offering a poignant exploration of love and loss.
- Narrative Style: The film employs a non-linear storytelling approach, depicting a decade-long relationship through various life events, enhancing its emotional depth.
- Critical Reception: With a 79% score on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has been praised for its intimate portrayal of relationships, though some critics noted potential confusion due to its structure.
Netflix is quietly adding a ‘tearjerking’ fan favourite
Film lovers, mark your calendars as a perfect story of love and loss is set to be added to Netflix next month.
We Live In Time is finally finding its home on Netflix UK on July 5, but warning, prepare for all the feels.
It’s a film that will make you laugh and cry, but most importantly, it teaches the audience that time is precious, following themes of grief in such a beautiful way that connects with so many watching.
Starring the Hollywood dream team, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, We Live in Time will take you on a bittersweet journey through years of love, heartbreak, and enforcing the age-old message that life is a ticking time bomb.
It follows the decade‑long, non-linear journey of Almut Brühl (Pugh), an ambitious chef, and Tobias Durand (Garfield), a marketing exec for Weetabix, as their relationship weaves through love, family, illness and everything in between.
Fans have been waiting years for this A-list collab (Picture: A24 via AP)
Hopeless romantics will need to grab the tissues as the film cleverly explores the life cycle of a relationship, cutting between timelines, past and present snapshots of a couple’s story show how their love weathers recovery, birth and death.
Directed by John Crowley, the film was released earlier this year and had cinema-goers sobbing and blubbering throughout the beautiful time-hopping story.
Reviews say ‘this broken timeline approach is part puzzle, part emotional puzzle – and more often than not, it works’, while it was also echoed that the structure mostly avoids confusion thanks to cues like pregnancy bump and baby Ella’s presence.
In our four-star Metro review, Tori Brazier wrote that ‘it is a wholesome and touching portrayal of a relationship acted out by two of the UK’s biggest stars right now. And it’s the perfect movie for when you want to sit in your feelings and be taken on an unashamedly emotional journey.’
Still, not everyone bought in. The Telegraph described it as ‘calamitous’ and argued that some emotional impact is lost when you see outcomes before knowing their back stories.
Andrew Garfield described working with Pugh as ‘deeply rewarding’ (Picture: AP)
Being a foodie herself, Florence Pugh was thrilled to be playing a chef (Picture: AP)
Viewers praised the film for how ‘intimate’ it felt – ‘like watching a real couple in their private moments instead of watching a movie couple sharing big romantic gestures,’ wrote @meb6x on Reddit.
Another fan, @literary_bonna, described the box office hit as ‘a classic “wish you were them” love story’.
With a 79% Rotten Tomatoes score, critics have labelled the film as a ‘powerful melodrama’.
If you did end up spending your weekly budget on the cinema trip (obviously you had to get that Tango ice blast), then you will be delighted to know that you can watch this firm fan fave again and again and again when it lands on Netflix next week.
Whether you want to pretend you have something in your eye or you just need to weep on the sofa, We Live In Time is guaranteed to take you on an emotional rollercoaster, so buckle up!
We Live in Time is available on Netflix on Saturday July 5.
