It’s been a bit since we last heard from John Crowley, who came over to Hollywood after a long and successful career in English theater and film and hit paydirt with Brooklyn in 2015. That was one of those heavily-nominated awards-hungry movies that reminds people why they never actually cracked open the shrink wrap on that Out of Africa VHS they bought back in ’89. Crowley’s next project, The Goldfinch, was a literary-sensation adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel that came out just a few years too late, after everyone digested the wonderful prose and realized that the book was exceptionally silly when stripped of its main asset.
So, in pondering his next move, Crowley decided to head back to the UK for We Live in Time, a new drama starring Hollywood faves and UK nationals Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, and it looks like a swell and deeply-felt little film. A24 dropped a trailer for it earlier on Wednesday, and it’ll put a lump in your throat for the rest of the workday.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis, straight from A24:
“Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley’s decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.”
We Live in Time will have its world premiere at this year’s TIFF in September, and it’ll make its way to a theater near you on October 11. Get those ponchos ready, folks, because we’re betting this will unleash so many tears that your local arthouse will have to go ahead and mark off the front rows as the splash zone. You don’t want to end up drenched, do you?