Yahoo Movies Andrew Garfield delights at We Live in Time's London premiere with Florence Pugh cut-out
The actor could not be joined by Florence Pugh at the BFI London Film Festival so he did the next best thing.
Andrew Garfield knows how to put on a show, and he certainly did just that at the premiere of his new film We Live in Time at the BFI London Film Festival.
The actor could not be joined by his co-star Florence Pugh on the red carpet so the Spider-Man star did the next best thing: he brought a cardboard cut-out of her with him.
We Live in Time stars Garfield and Pugh as Tobias and Almut, a young couple who meet and fall in love with each other and face several hardships together including illness and infertility issues. The film has been celebrated by critics, with several remarking on its moving yet tragic story.
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As well as pose with the cardboard cut-out of Pugh the actor was seen giving the cut-out time to be photographed on its own too, indicating to photographers that they should take snaps before walking away. Pugh was unable to attend the event but shared a message to fans wishing that she could be there.
Garfield had a few fun moments on the red carpet, include a sweet interaction with his co-star Grace Delaney who plays Tobias and Almut's daughter. The pair were seen chatting with each other, with Delaney giving her co-star a friendship bracelet in the process.
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Fans of the actor were besides themselves with delight over his amusing actions on the red carpet, with one person writing on X: "ANDREW GARFIELD THE MAN THAT U R". Another person wrote: "IM HOWLING andrew garfield never change".
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Critics were delighted with Garfield — and the film — in a very different way thanks to his performance opposite Pugh, with Time's Eliza Berman wrote that the film "will destroy" viewers because of its tragic premise.
The Hollywood Reporter's Michael Rechtshaffen wrote that the pair were "achingly resonant" in the film, writing: "There’s an achingly palpable, playful chemistry between Pugh and Garfield that leaps off the screen. But they also refuse to shy away from letting their characters’ less attractive qualities bleed through."
The critic went on: "While We Live in Time and its subject matter might not lay claim to the audience uplift of Crowley’s Oscar-nominated Brooklyn, seldom has such an unflinchingly honest take on mortality felt so transcendently life-affirming."
For IndieWire's David Ehlrich the film was a "deeply affecting tear-jerker", adding "this heaving sob of a movie futzes with time in order to shrink the distance between happiness and heartache."
The critic went on: "Pugh is rivetingly headstrong and self-possessed as a sick woman who feels an undue pressure to live in the moment, even when that means competing in an ultra-intense culinary competition at the height of her chemo treatments. Garfield doesn’t get nearly as much to do as a puppy-eyed pragmatist, but he’s a brilliant actor who understands how to play the foil Pugh needs."
The Telegraph's Robbie Collin wasn't as impressed by the film, writing that he found it a "calamitous romantic weepie" adding that the issue with the film — and ultimately its "undoing" — is that the "plot unfolds out of sequence."
Collin remarked that Garfield and Pugh can always be relied upon, writing that they "have proven watchable in everything they’ve appeared in, no matter how patchy… until now". He added: "As for the hops back and forth through time themselves, the juxtapositions they create are by turns so lumbering and inane, I’m at a genuine loss as to what the intended effects were meant to be."
We Live in Time premieres in the UK on 1 January, 2025.
