After making the festival rounds, this movie opens in limited release on December 12, 2008 and was written and directed by Spaniard Nacho Vigalondo. He also plays one of the four cast members.A husband and wife are hanging out by their isolated home. The husband looks into the woods and sees a young woman behaving suspiciously. He sees her take her top off. With his wife gone, he decides to go investigate the woods. He comes across the completely nude woman and is quickly attacked with a pair of scissors by a trench-coated, and face bandaged lunatic.
The husband flees and is led to lab where a seemingly friendly scientist tells him to hide in pod-like device. The pod closes. When it reopens, the man is transported many hours back in time.
This sets off an interesting entry into the Time Travel genre, which has echoes of Primer, Deja Vu and Memento. One that involves an extremely small cast and very few locations. However, they all work with an interesting script that is constantly turning in on itself.
Perhaps not the best time travel movie, but Los Cronocrimenes is enjoyable and very well made.
Watch out for the Hollywood remake in a couple of years.
No comments:
Post a Comment