Love in the present (We Live in Time) tells the story of a contemporary British couple over a period of 10 years. We dive into the heart of bittersweet love, loss and the fragility of existence, through the adventures of this couple in their thirties with a young child.
Andrew Garfield plays Tobias, a recently divorced man who works in marketing and falls in love with Almut (Pugh), a chef and owner of a fine dining restaurant in London. However, things take a dramatic turn when she receives a heartbreaking medical diagnosis. The film then explores the harsh realities and trials of life with great emotional charge.
In British cinema, there is a tradition of romantic comedy and drama with eccentric characters. Let us think of Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Really Love… “It probably has to do with English humor, the British spirit,” Florence Pugh told us in an interview.
“I love watching these romantic comedies with these characters who are imperfect, a little silly, but so endearing. These characters refuse to shy away from their flaws in order to look good. They accept their contradictions and laugh at their misfortune.”
— Actress Florence Pugh
“It’s very important, vital, to have the ability to laugh in a couple, if we want the relationship to last,” says Andrew Garfield. It’s okay to cry too. But you have to know how to balance seriousness and lightness, intensity and joy on a daily basis. When everyday life makes you laugh, you can get through many wars.”
Love in the present, trailer (Sphère Films)
Accept your destiny
The relationship between Almut, a passionate and ambitious woman, and Tobias, a man who hides his vulnerability by wanting to control everything, is a great truth. The British screenwriter Nick Payne, also a theater playwright (Constellations), built a rollercoaster love story. To reflect on free will and the choices that everyone makes in their lives.
This poignant romantic drama was very well received in Toronto. Even if his approach is not classic in form and tone.
“We struggle to change our destiny, in vain,” says Garfield. There are inevitable and uncontrollable things in love as in life. We would like to be more powerful than the world, the tragedies, the breakups. Until the day we hit a wall. So we collapse. And in this collapse, we find the truth; which is that we don’t control anything at all.”
“We must learn to accept the things we cannot change in life, and accept that nature is superior to our ego. With that comes beauty, grace, love.”
— Actor Andrew Garfield
“Our characters meet by fate, in a car accident, it’s destiny, but afterward, it’s their choices, often painful, which determine their relationship,” adds the interpreter of Almut, who is unable to hiding her fear of illness, although she refuses to have her life defined by her “decline.”
Chemistry works
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh portray a contemporary British couple over a period of 10 years. (Sphere Films)
The chemistry between the two performers is palpable in the film as well as in the interview. “Everyone talks to us about our chemistry on screen, our fusion in the game… But a lot of it has to do with the climate of trust and security that John [Crowley] installed on the film set, explain the two actors. We were able to tap into the energies buried within us, bad or good, but alive!”
Florence Pugh is very happy to see that the film resonates so much with people. “What’s touching in this film is seeing that we don’t have to fight against the movement of life. We must transform our dramas and our sorrows into something beautiful and positive.”
“I believe that loving and being loved remains our mission on Earth. Especially in this day and age where the world is cruel, and hatred is everywhere.”
Love in the present takes place on Friday, October 11.
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