October 9, 2024
Timestalker review: A hilarious time-leaping love story
Alice Lowe writes, directs and stars in.“What time is it?” asks Agnes (Alice Lowe) near the beginning of Timestalker – and her question is immediately, if somewhat vaguely, answered by an intertitle that appears on screen, to the accompaniment of portentous music, stating that it is the year 1688. As its very title implies, writer/director Lowe’s feature is about time, following the same ensemble of actors, and – mutatis mutandis – the same constellation of characters, across different eras. Time and again, Agnes will fall hopelessly for Alex (Aneurin Barnard), and die violently in her head-over-heels amatory pursuit of the wrong ’un, always liberating him, if never herself – only to be reborn in a subsequent period (1793, 1847, 1940, 1980, 2117) to repeat the whole infernal cycle. Amazon Prime Video subscription, FuboTV subscription Photo credit: https://www.scifinow.co.uk/reviews/timestalker-a-hilarious-time-leaping-love-story-from-alice-lowe-sxsw-2024-review/ Published October 11, 2024 More details »
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