Amnesia is a pretty handy narrative device when it comes to romance movies: we’ve all shed a tear at The Vow and 50 First Dates, where one lover has to make the other remember the whirlwind love life they’ve shared together.
In Time Is Up, Bella Thorne is the next smitten character to look up at her partner and say those three not-so-romantic words: “who are you?” This twisty, Rome-set love story is now playing in select cinemas around Australia.
Use our session time finder to figure out if there’s still time to see Time Is Up at a cinema in your region, depending on local COVID regulations. It sounds like an unforgettable date movie—even if forgetting is kind of the film’s central premise.
Time Is Up is an Italian production written and directed by Elisa Amoruso, with some scenes shot in the US to give us a bit of background for Thorne’s brainy character Vivien. A physics student who believes that humans in love act just like atomic particles, Vivien is torn between her boyfriend Steve (Sebastiano Pigazzi) and the tattoo-clad bad boy Roy (Benjamin Mascolo).
After a devastating car accident leaves her a shaky memory of relationships, who will Vivien end up forming a covalent bond with? Thorne and Mascolo are engaged IRL, so hopefully some of their actual romantic connection comes through onscreen. Let’s also hope that celebrity factoid doesn’t end up being too much of a spoiler, when it comes to who Vivien might choose…
If you’re yearning to visit Italy—or even just a public pool, as in the trailer’s sexy scenes of the couple having a dip together may inspire—Time Is Up could be the next best thing, a swoon-worthy romantic dilemma with some mumbly voiceover about how love isn’t so different to maths.
