Netflix is removing We Live in Time, the heartbreaking British drama starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, in two weeks’ time. The film will be taken off the streaming service on 28 February, and its currently not available on any other subscription service.
Told in a non-linear manner over the course of a decade, the film tells the story of how a couple meet and get together, and are then devastated by some major news.
To say any more would be to spoil it, but it’s renowned as a proper tear-jerker, and a pretty effective one at that.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 79% positive score from over 220 critic reviews. The user score is even higher, at 83% positive from over 1,000 ratings from viewers.
“Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh’s palpable chemistry will snatch audiences’ hearts before breaking them in We Live in Time, a powerful melodrama that uses its nonlinear structure to thoughtfully explore grief,” reads the review aggregator’s Critics Consensus.
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On IMDb, where the user score is a slightly lower 7.0/10 – although that’s only an average –, one fan called it “a fantastic, well-made film filled with humor, heart, and a gut punch of emotional weight”, citing the “emotional” and “raw” performances from its lead pair.
“The things these two character[s] go through in this movie all manage to be heartwarming, devastating and even wholesome depending on what scenes these moments are taking place,” wrote another viewer, who “also appreciated that this movie manages to keep the balance during these moments to where they don’t feel overly dramatic or overly emotional to the point where it feel like cringe”.
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Another user called the non-linear narrative a “double-edged sword” that added complexity to the story “at the cost of emotional connection”, while another bemoaned that “It was just as if someone had thrown the scenes up in the air and put the film together in the order that they fell down in”.
So if you don’t mind or especially enjoy a non-linear structure, this might be one for you.
We Live in Time is available to stream on Netflix until 28 February.
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