The 2024 film WE LIVE IN TIME now screening on Apple+ is a love story starring Andrew Garfield ("Spiderman") and Florence Pugh ("Oppenheimer"). Both actors are wonderful on screen and together but the structure of the film jumps around in time too much so that it becomes frenetic and disruptive to the emotional impact of the story. Almut (Pugh) is a chef who inadvertently "runs over" Tobias (Garfield) in a scene that looked deadly but brought the two together in the hospital hallway. (Why he isn't in a bed recovering is just one of the minor enigmas that mount into a stupefying placement of scenes that are somewhere between the couple's auspicious beginnings to Almut's infertility struggles and pregnancy, to their breaking-up, to Almut's burgeoning career, her two bouts with cancer and to giving birth in the convenience store's crapper. Some of the scenarios are ridiculously lame as in the later, but some are very touching as well as when the two discuss Almut's option whether to pursue more treatments or the shaving of Almuts scalp aided by Tobias and their adorable daughter. The montage of celebratory moments at a carnival riding the carousel and bumper cars is delightful. However, the movie is plagued by its confusing structure intended at being clever by inferring life's momentous events are relived in our non-chronological memories. Furthermore, some superfluous scenes should have been edited out all together, as in the first family dinner where it was revealed Almut was an olympic figure skater or the pregnant belly laden with chocolate biscuits bobbing in the bathtub. The movie was entertaining thanks to the charms of Garfield and Pugh who were easy to watch and root for. The director of WE LIVE IN TIME should've entrusted their appeal and not have bandied about the movie fraught with its misfirings of scattered sequences in time.
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