The European premiere of John Crowley’s “We Live in Time” will close the Official Selection of the 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival, out of competition. Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in this romantic drama about two people whose lives are forever changed when an accident brings them together.
Written by Nick Payne, We Live in Time offers a series of snapshots of the couple Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield), as they learn to cherish each moment of the route their love story has taken.
Garfield and Pugh star as Almut and Tobias, a couple brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together − falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family − a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation. 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 this decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Crowley made his feature film directorial debut with Intermission (2003), included in the San Sebastian Festival’s New Directors section. He later went on to make films such as Boy A (2007), in which he already worked with Andrew Garfield; Is Anybody There? (2008), Closed Circuit (2013), Brooklyn (2015) and The Goldfinch (2019). He has also directed series such as True Detective, Modern Love and Life After Life.
Andrew Garfield made his debut a feature film actor in Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford, 2007) and Boy A (John Crowley, 2007). As well as having portrayed Spiderman in The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, the English and American actor has worked in films including The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010), Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016), Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018) and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Michael Showalter, 2021), which bagged Jessica Chastain the Silver Shell ex-aequo for Best Leading Performance. In addition, Garfield has been nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award twice for Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016) and Tick, Tick… Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2021).
Florence Pugh is known for Little Women (2019), for which she received the nomination for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award, and one of her first movies, Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd, 2016), which competed in the Official Selection and won the FIPRESCI Prize in San Sebastian. The British actress has also starred in Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019), The Wonder (Sebastián Lelio, 2022, Official Selection), Don’t Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde, 2022, Perlak), Black Widow (Cate Shortland, 2021), A Good Person (Zach Braff, 2023) and Dune: Part Two (2024, Denis Villeneuve).
We Live in Time will be released in US cinemas on October 11, 2024, and in Spanish cinemas on 3 January 2025.