| SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
Lauded short film director Nacho Vigalondo makes his feature
debut with this tense, unstoppable vision of science and natural
law gone awry.
Hector (Karra Elejalde) is relaxing on a lawn chair outside
of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through
a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what appears
to be a nude woman amidst the trees. Hiking up to investigate,
he is attacked by a sinister figure whose head is wrapped
in a grotesque, pink bandage. Fleeing in terror, he takes
refuge in a laboratory atop the hill, where a lone attendant
(director Nacho Vigalondo) ushers him in to a peculiar scientific
contraption. He emerges what seems to be moments later, only
to find that he has traveled back hours in time, setting in
motion a brain-twisting, horrifying chain of events when he
inadvertently runs into himself.
Drawing from the best traditions of classic science fiction
and crime fiction, TIMECRIMES plays games with the genre and
the audience, giving the protaganist a Russian-doll like shell
of identities that are shed so often that Hector can be playing
one of any number of whodunit archetypes at any given moment
as he becomes increasingly more complicit in the complicated
mess that he’s trying to fix.
Says director Vigalondo: "TIMECRIMES comes from my love
of classic science fiction and crime stories. Writers like
James Cain, Philip K. Dick, or directors like Fritz Lang.
The idea of building a tragic paradox with such few elements
is my attempt to going back to the classics and trying to
bring back something new."
DETAILS__________
Studio:
Magnet Release
Magnolia Pictures
(Six Shooter Film Series)
Production Co:
Karbo Vantas Entertainment
In Co-Production With
Fine Productions
Zip Films
In Association With
Arsenico Pic
Release Date:
December 12, 2008 (NY, LA; Other cities to follow)
RELATED LINKS__________
Wikipedia - Movie Info
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia - Director Info
en.wikipedia.org
International Official Site
www.loscronocrimenes.com
Theater Listings
www.magpictures.com
Production Site
www.sixshooterfilmseries.com
Facebook Page
www.facebook.com
Myspace Page
www.myspace.com
Netflix Page
www.netflix.com
Rotten Tomatoes Page
www.rottentomatoes.com
Youtube Page
www.youtube.com
Google Page
www.google.com
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