Timecrimes ( Los Cronocrímenes )

Timecrimes (DVD) (*)

Out of Stock
(Expected in Stock in 3-6 weeks)

Original Title: Los Cronocrímenes
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
Goya Awards
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Nacho Vigalondo

Written By:
Nacho Vigalondo

Actors:
Karra Elejalde ..... Héctor
Candela Fernández ..... Clara
Bárbara Goenaga ..... La Chica en el Bosque
Nacho Vigalondo ..... El Joven
Juan Inciarte ..... Héctor Ocasional (as Ion Inciarte)

Synopsis:

Proof positive that a naked hottie and whiz-bang pacing can disguise the most gaping narrative cracks, 'Timecrimes' makes sci-fi lemonade out of low-budget lemons. Tackling time travel with zero special effects, one location and only four speaking roles requires nerve-and in this case an exorbitant faith in full-frontal nudity-but the Spanish writer and director Nacho Vigalondo has audacity to spare. Constructing a looping, economical plot and directing like a fire marshal in a flaming building, he conjures urgency and disorientation from the thinnest of air. All the more admirable when his instrument is the stolid, paunchy Hector (Karra Elejalde), a well-fed husband whose idly scanning binoculars snag on an impromptu striptease in the woods near his new home. Compelled to investigate, he discovers a dead beauty and a lurking attacker; fleeing to a nearby laboratory, he is hidden in a tank by a nervous scientist (played by Mr. Vigalondo), emerging to discover that an hour has passed- backward. Unlike Shane Carruth's incomprehensible 'Primer' (which shares a central plot device), 'Timecrimes'never abandons momentum: like the audience, Hector has no time to think. His resolute acceptance of his bizarre situation is central to the movie's success.

A man enters a time machine accidentally, and travels back one hour. Meeting his former self will only be the first paradox in a chain of unpredictable catastrophical consequences unleashed.

Time-travel thriller. On vacation in rural Spain, a man accidentally travels back in time after being attacked by a mysterious hooded figure.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 March, 2009.

Customers who bought this product also purchased

Against the Wind (1948) (DVD)