TIFF 2024: ‘We Live In Time’ brings life lessons to Toronto festival | WSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM

By Divya Rajagopal

TORONTO (Reuters) – “We Reside In Time,” which made its premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, is a tear-jerker that takes on the massive questions of affection, the which means of life, and how you can cherish every day beneath the shadow of human mortality.

The film, starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, tells the story of a younger couple who meet beneath probably the most sudden circumstances and begin a life collectively. However a most cancers prognosis and the opportunity of imminent dying quickly shatter their home contentment, forcing them to rethink their lives.

The gnawing uncertainty turns into a supply of battle for the household because it struggles to set new priorities: whether or not to chase long-held ambitions, to construct completely satisfied reminiscences in no matter time stays or to hunt an elusive medical treatment.

For Garfield, who made his mark as Peter Parker in “The Superb Spider-Man” franchise, the film is about coming to phrases with the ephemeral nature of life.

“We’re all heading to the identical place – I believe we overlook that – and the one factor that provides life which means is we do not forget that,” Garfield informed reporters on the movie’s premiere on Friday.

Directed by John Crowley from a screenplay by Nick Payne, the film pairs Garfield, 41, and Pugh, 28, for the primary time on display.

For the “Spider-Man” star, the expertise of working with Pugh – whose credit embody 2019’s “Little Ladies,” “Black Widow” in 2021 and 2023’s “Oppenheimer” – was pleasant.

“There isn’t any method of realizing and also you all the time should roll the cube, and thank god John’s intuition was proper and we managed to have a superb time collectively,” Garfield informed Reuters, referring to Crowley’s determination to forged his two stars within the roles of romantic companions.

For Pugh, TIFF is a homecoming of kinds. The actor made her TIFF debut with “Girl Macbeth” in 2016, however it’s only this yr that she made it to the pageant in individual.

“That is for the primary time that I’m attending TIFF in individual, so it seems like lastly I made it,” Pugh informed reporters.

(Reporting by Divya Rajagopal in Toronto; Modifying by Frank McGurty and Diane Craft)