The European premiere of We Live in Time, the latest movie from John Crowley, will close the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition 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.
A film, theatre and television director, Crowley (Cork, 1969) made his feature debut with Intermission (2003), included in the Festival’s New Directors section. The Irish author 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.
Written by Nick Payne, the screenplay of 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.
Andrew Garfield took his first steps as 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 run for the Best Actor Academy Award twice for his parts in Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016) and Tick, Tick… Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2021).
We Live in Time will be released in Spanish cinemas on 3 January 2025 by Beta Fiction Spain.
Tickets for the closing gala in the Kursaal 1 will go on sale tomorrow, 3 September, although tickets for the event on 28 September in the Velodrome went on sale this Tuesday, 20 August, with three screenings starting at 18:45: to open the proceedings, the closing gala of the Perlak section with the film Marco, by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño, followed by the live broadcast of the closing and awards gala, and the screening of We Live in Time.
Almut and Tobias are 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.