The Irishman behind the most romantic film of 2025

December 23, 2024
The Irishman behind the most romantic film of 2025

Written by Nick Payne, We Live in Time tells the story of Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) who meet under very strange circumstances, fall in love, and discover that "life has other ideas" for them.


Watch: The trailer for We Live in Time. Warning: spoilers!

We need your consent to load this comcast-player contentWe use comcast-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences

"I think it's one of the things that appealed to me about it is that you have two characters who have a bunch of complicated history and them getting together and what they both want from life isn't the same thing," the Cork filmmaker explained to host O'Callaghan.

"It sort of felt like a grown-up story rather than a kind of more-youthful story about romantic destiny where boy meets girl and it's happy ever after. It just felt more adult than that."

(L-R) Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, and John Crowley at the world premiere of We Live in Time at the Toronto International Film Festival in September

"It is about trying to show lots of different facets of a relationship so that by the end of the film you should feel like you've known these two people all your life, and you've seen them go through a whole chunk of life rather than just one small section of it," Crowley added.

We Live in Time opens in cinemas on 1 January.

Click here for more movie news.