We Live in Time review – Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in soggy tearjerker

The romance between award-winning chef Almut (Pugh) and Tobias (Garfield), a divorcee with the soulful eyes of an abandoned puppy, is fractured into tiny mosaic pieces. Piecing together the tale is a sweetly satisfying experience, even if the structure also acts as a barrier, meaning that we don’t get to know the characters as thoroughly as we otherwise might. But We Live in Time is let down by the jarring product placement (take a bow, Weetabix and Jaffa Cakes) and by the aggressively anodyne score, which sounds like the kind of reassuring, hand-holding mulch that might be played in a dentist’s waiting room.