Director: John Crowley
Told out of order across a decade, this British drama follows two people whose relationship unfolds in fragments — a chance meeting, a shared home, a diagnosis, a child — leaving the audience to assemble the full shape of their life together.
What is We Live in Time about?
Almut, a driven chef building her own restaurant, and Tobias, recently divorced and adrift, meet by accident in a way neither expects to matter. The film then jumps between the earliest days of their relationship and years later, when a serious illness forces both of them to reconsider what they want from the time they have left. Rather than moving in a straight line, the story cuts between a hospital waiting room, a maternity ward, a kitchen at 3 a.m., and a first awkward conversation, trusting the audience to piece together cause and consequence. What emerges is less a conventional romance than a portrait of how a single relationship can hold ordinary joy and looming loss at the same time, without ever flattening one into the other.
Cast & crew
Andrew Garfield plays Tobias and Florence Pugh plays Almut, carrying nearly every scene of the film between them across timelines that require both actors to age, soften, and harden at different points in the same story. Grace Delaney, Lee Braithwaite, and Douglas Hodge appear in supporting roles that anchor the couple's world outside their own relationship.
Context & significance
Director John Crowley worked from a screenplay by playwright Nick Payne, whose stage work often plays with time and structure rather than telling stories chronologically. That background shows in the film's fractured timeline, which asks viewers to hold multiple periods of the same relationship in mind at once rather than following a single forward path.
Where & how to watch
We Live in Time is available on K-Time with a Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences, along with Persian dubbing and subtitles so the dialogue lands the way it was written. This page is free to browse, and streaming the film only requires signing into a K-Time account.