“Our time”. Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh.
Yesterday, the day before and today you heard from someone you know or a complete stranger a story more interesting than the plot-like thing that unfolds in Our Time, a very bad, uninteresting British drama film that shows completely ordinary things in the most casual way. There is no romance in it, it hardly evokes any positive emotion.
We went to the movie, we came home after midnight, we went to the mall, on the way I felt hungry, we sat in row 10, we bought popcorn at the buffet, it was cool outside. It’s all unbearably normal, isn’t it? And not entirely in chronological order. The same is true in “our time”. Almot and Tobias (their names are the only original thing here) meet, she gives birth to a daughter before her cancer returns. Elmot (Florence Pugh, “Black Widow”, “Little Women”, tries very hard to give her character the roughness she likes) is also a chef, a very fashionable profession in recent years in television and film, and Tobias (Andrew Garfield, “The Amazing Spider-Man”, “The Reluctant” ) The bathtub lover was married before and has a father.
If you take a simple and ordinary story, without any trace of dramatic tension, then there should be amazing characters, outstanding dialogues and/or subtle diagnoses and sensitivity. There is none of that here, while there are lots and lots of casual things, moments that add nothing, everything passes by without leaving any impression or mark (for example: the dinner with the family members of each side), and we actually dwell on two sections that are both long For no reason and maddeningly boring… the first is unbearable at a gas station and the second inspires indifference in a cooking competition.
To try to create some kind of something resembling a thing called drama then the course of “events” is presented in a non-chronological order. At first it’s a bit intriguing, but you quickly realize that it doesn’t really add interest, doesn’t make us see or understand any event in a different way, maybe just takes the sting out of certain moments (we know she didn’t die in childbirth, that they have a child, that she manages to get pregnant), And without this artificial attempt to bring nothing to life it would probably have been nothing just as much. Why start with Alamut riding home on a bicycle and picking plants? just like that. Everything is too casual.
There are many movies with someone with cancer, the best of them all that is not just about someone with cancer but includes someone with cancer is “Terms of Endearment”.
“Our time”. Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield.
You don’t have to do much to make your day-to-day life a little more interesting, the ordinary doesn’t have to be mundane and annoyingly boring. There are endless movies about couples who meet and fall in love and have a relationship. Did the creators of “Our Time” never talk to people about what they were going through? Didn’t they understand that it was necessary to interest their sons? It’s not hard to say something like: we went to the movie because we had to escape from the news, on the way we saw a dog running without an owner and we wondered why, there were only two other people in the hall and we offered them our popcorn, we told everyone we met not to come near “our time”.
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our time (USA, UK, France, 2024)
Directed by: John Crowley Screenplay: Nick Payne | Cast: Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, Grace Delaney, Lee Braithwaite, Where’s Hinds, Adam James | Original music: Bryce Dessner Photo: Stuart Bentley
Distribution: Forum Film, starting from 17.10.2024 in cinemas. Click here for screening times and cinema tickets. trailer:
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