People don’t live like the people in We Live in Time. Yes, they fall in love. They have children. They get sick. Yet real life is a forward march; cinema of this breed is a dainty skip across the stepping stones.
Tobias (Andrew Garfield) has reached rock bottom. Having climbed out of his depression bath, the crumbs of his HobNob depression meal still at the corners of his mouth, he discovers there isn’t a single, functioning pen or pencil he can use to sign his divorce papers. And so he hobbles out of his hotel room in nothing but a dressing gown, only to be promptly hit by a car driven by Almut (Florence Pugh), the future love of his life.
