FILM
TIMESTALKER
A ROMCOM WHERE HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Hair today, gone tomorrow: Alice Lowe as Agnes.
★★★
OUT 11 OCTOBER / CERT TBC / 89 MINS
DIRECTOR
Alice Lowe
CAST
Alice Lowe, Nick Frost, Aneurin Barnard,
Tanya Reynolds, Jacob Anderson, Kate Dickie
PLOT
Lonely, lovestruck Agnes (Lowe) pursues the elusive object of her infatuation across hundreds of years of history.
A PASSION PROJECT in the works for eight years, Alice Lowe’s follow-up to Prevenge borrows from the likes of Terry Gilliam and Stanley Kubrick to tell a story about the obsessive pursuit of love, with a healthy side of schlocky gore. Lowe has long been something of a savant of the strange and macabre, from her breakout role in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace onwards. But her imagination really runs wild here, leaping between centuries with aplomb, even if the jokes are disappointingly weak.