Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield’s weepy R-rated romance has a trailer, and We Live in Time is already making potential audiences sob.
Penned by Nick Payne and directed by John Crowley, the movie features the two stars as Tobias and Almut, a couple who fall in love and live out their years together. Based on therom-com’strailer, Almut’s cancer diagnosis forces the two to come to terms with the time they have left.
From Garfield and Pugh’s serendipitous meet cute to Almut’s troubling diagnosis, it’s clear there’s plenty of material in thenew moviepoised to get audiences sobbing. From the sounds of it, the trailer’s already done the job.
“Not me crying just from the trailer,” one X/Twitter userwrote. They weren’t the only one, with others addingcomments like, “Crying at a 2.5 min trailer. It’s not going well for me.”
“Not me crying at 9 in the morning,”saidanother.
Clearly, a big emotional romance is what many have been hoping for. The comments prove there are lots of people out there more than prepared for the tragedy to come.
“Getting bigPast Livesvibes from this trailer. Which means I’ll probably end up in another emotional spiral by the end of it,”saidone comment.
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“This might wreck me,” anotheradmitted. “They’re going to have to kick me out of the cinema today because I’m already seated.”
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Jessica Cullen is a TV and Movies Writer on Dexerto’s UK team. She’s previously written for The Digital Fix, Cosmopolitan, Refinery29, Slate and more. Aside from being the residential Yellowstone expert, she also loves Westerns, ’90s action movies, and true crime. You can email her here: jessica.cullen@dexerto.com.
