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It was just as if someone had thrown the scenes up in the air and put the film together in the order that they fell down in. Superb acting but spoilt but disconnected story. Both Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield gave memorable performances. I have seen other films with a non linear plot and can't understand why the filmmakers seem to want to confuse the film goer. I guess I'm not a fan of movies when they have multiple times which jump backwards and forwards. The cinematography was good and polished. The film did not live up to its full potential as the story line was so disconnected. Such a shame!

Andrew Garfield is Tobias, he comes across as a mostly passive person, sometimes has a hard time just expressing himself. As the writer says he is the type of person who 'colors inside the lines.' Early in the story he has to sign some important papers, he goes out at night and gets some ink pens, is clumsy and drops them on the roadway, when picking them up gets hit by a car, full on.

The driver of that car is Florence Pugh as Almut. (Is that a common name in the UK?) She is quite opposite of Tobias in most ways. She is a decorated chef, is working on the opening of her own restaurant and is more willing to take risks as she goes through life.

They meet in the hospital after the accident, they are definitely attracted to each other, and the rest of the story is their fits and starts at building a life together.

The story is not presented in a linear manner, the director explains why in the Blu Ray extras and it makes sense.

Both actors are very good and I especially am a fan of Pugh, I believe I have seen her in 8 movies now and she always creates an interesting and authentic role, as she does here.

My wife and watched it at home, on Blu Ray from out public library. We enjoyed it, both as often funny entertainment and for the deep points about life it touches on.

We get it, some moviemakers successfully used non-linear storytelling in the past to make some good movies but now it's way over used and overdone to the point of getting old. Now we have directors making their movies non-linear on purpose just to hide poor plot because they know that if they tell their plot in a linear way it will look too simple and boring so they just use non-linear story telling to make their movie appear smarter than it is.

This is one of those movies where you have a pretty plain old storyline full of cliches but the director tries to make up for it by using non-linear storytelling not to mention using a couple super popular actors but the movie is pretty bad overall and it doesn't really work.

Well, it was definitely an enjoyable film to watch with a lot of other people. Lots of people in the audience laughing and crying. I didn't feel emotionally wrecked - I felt uplifted by the performances I saw - Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh are both wonderful in this film. They are just so good together - a real sense of trust between them. I heard a man exiting festival hall sarcastically saying to his friend 'and she just happened to be a world class chef... ' I didn't mind any of that because I believed her. I don't want to see a film abt normal boring life - I want escapism, romance, something other than my life but based in truth. A domestic drama but between two beautiful people. I'd definitely watch it again - the time flew by.

It's been a long time since a film has left me this unsatisfied. This had everything good going, A24 production, amazing leads, beautiful scenery and it just didn't deliver. The writing is terrible. I don't know why they decided to make it a non-linear storytelling but it was more exhausting than interesting, with times changing too fast and the whole story lacking any depth.

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield were amazing in their roles but their characters were very much unlikeable and also lacked depth.

Wouldn't recommend it, my rating is just for the main actors and the good architecture. I was so ready to weep my eyes out while/after watching this, but nothing came.