Seemingly pathologically incapable of remembering the past, Agnes is condemned to repeat it time and time and time and time again in this outlandish romantic comedy from writer-director-star Alice Lowe. Agnes’s downward spiral kicks off in 17th century Scotland when she falls for the disinterested Alex (Aneurin Barnard) at a public execution, only to meet an untimely demise herself. Reincarnated every century or so, she’s masochistically drawn to that era’s equally apathetic Alex and destined to perish in her attempts to woo him.
Timestalker is both a giddy genre confection and a heartfelt tale of hard-won empowerment achieved over the course of several lifetimes. Inspired by old Hollywood’s grand romantic epics and lovingly incorporating elements of costume dramas, speculative fantasies, swashbuckling adventures, and 80s music videos, Lowe has crafted a wild technicolour romp through time that pays tribute to the ritualistic humiliation that’s often part and parcel of romantic pursuits.
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Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds and Nick Frost
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2024
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Ty Francis, Franki Goodwin, Mike Rattenbury, Vaughan Sivell, Natan Stoessel, Marie-Gabrielle Stewart, Peter Watson, Natascha Wharton, Bizzy Day, Kiah Simpson, Laura Brook, Charlotte Colbert, Philip Colbert, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross
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Vaughan Sivell, Mark Hopkins, Tom Wood, Natan Stoessel
Screenwriter
Alice Lowe
Cinematography
Ryan Eddleston
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Chris Dickens, Mátyás Fekete
Production Design
Felicity Hickson
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Alice Lowe
Alice Lowe made her screenwriting debut with Sightseers (2012), directed by Ben Wheatley, in which she also starred. Prevenge (2016) was Lowe’s directorial feature debut, which she wrote, starred in, and directed whilst eight months pregnant. The film opened the Venice Critics’ Week and screened at Toronto, LFF, Sitges, Rotterdam, SXSW, and AFI, before being released in the UK and the US to critical and audience acclaim. Timestalker (2024) is her sophomore directorial feature.
Filmography: Prevenge (2016)
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