How I Live Now2013
How I Live Now (2013)
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Critic Consensus: Led by another strong performance from Saoirse Ronan and a screenplay that subverts YA clichés, How I Live Now blends young love with post-apocalyptic drama.
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Cast
as Daisy
as Isaac
as Eddie
as Eddie
as Piper
as Aunt Penn
as Consular Official
as Joe
as News Reporter
as Sergeant
as Mrs. McEvoy
as Major McEvoy
as Woman in Truck
as Woman in Truck
as Checkpoint Soldier
as Beaten Woman
as Chasing Man 1
as Chasing Man 2
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Critic Reviews for How I Live Now
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Refreshingly free of digital apocalyptics and unnervingly prone to random violence.
How I Live Now centres on what happens to a group of young people when civilization begins to crumble. But it's also a poignant love story, a compelling, against-all-odds one at that.
"How I Live Now" makes World War III seem boring, which would hardly seem possible.
There's a clear message here: Sometimes it takes extraordinary circumstances to realize it, but we all have the capacity to shed our petty concerns and focus on the greater good.
How I Live Now offers adolescents a lovely vision of holistic healing in the same countryside.
There's a lot left unsaid in How I Live Now - but it's unsaid with unusual force.
Audience Reviews for How I Live Now
Limp young romance in the English countryside as some international tensions develop into actual firefights on the homefront. I spent the whole film waiting for something to happen, anything. I should better have made popcorn.
Super Reviewer
I didn't know what to think when I came into watching this film. I certainly wasn't expecting what I got. I like how they focused on the characters and really fleshed them out. It was a very real story but maybe it should have been more focused. It was both a coming of age romance story and a post-apocalyptic survival drama. It felt like it was trying to do too much. Either way, it was still enjoyable.
Super Reviewer
"How I Live Now"? Apparently how Saoirse Ronan lives now is in a world where gradually toning down the hamminess of a performance passes as character development. The script really could use a little...umm...EVERYTHING. But for a low budget film, it actually does a lot with what it has.
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How I Live Now Quotes
| Daisy: | This Is how I live now |
| Daisy: | This Is how I live now. |