12 - 21 November 2009

Timecrimes

The smartest time travel film since Shane Carruth's Primer, Nacho Vigalondo's debut collides the science fiction and slasher genres to perverse effect. The story of Héctor, a man caught unwittingly inside a temporal labyrinth, it's a stunning feat of narrative architecture, with moments of candid horror. Widely known for his roles in Spanish comedies, Karra Elejalde plays the lead as a man undergoing permanent transformation, just as he come to terms with his complicity in the events that surround him. Timecrimes wields the conventions of its twin genres like the blades of sharp scissors, and asks: How can we control desire? Can guilt absolve us? And how are we to be the authors of our own lives? TH

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