THE “WORLD”’S OPINION – MUST SEE
Almut (Florence Pugh) jogs along a wooded path in Surrey, southeast of London. At the end of the trip, she stops to pick aromatic plants. Back at the cottage, she prepares a Douglas fir needle parfait which she hastens to taste to her companion, Tobias (Andrew Garfield), who is still in bed. Next sequence: he times the contractions of his other half, sitting on the toilet bowl. Next sequence: in the kitchen of her first restaurant, she is overcome by intense pain which bends her in two…
Love in the presentby Irish director John Crowley (Brooklyn2015), is a romantic comedy made up of the small and big moments of a love story spanning ten years. Between Almut, a determined young chef, and Tobias, marketing manager for Weetabix cereals, there are nothing but the essentials: the first meeting, arguments, the introduction to the respective families, the marriage proposal, the birth, professional changes of direction… This column plays with the banality of life together, which constitutes an exercise in style in itself.
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