Timecrimes

Section: Elements of Crime
Directed by: Nacho Vigalondo


Los Cronocrímenes
Spain, 2007

Dir.: Nacho Vigalondo
Scr.: Nacho Vigalondo; Phot.: Flavio Martínez Labiano; Ed.: Jose Luis Romeu; Music: Eugenio Mira
Cast: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo, Juan Inciarte
Format: 35 mm; Color; 92 mins
Language: Spanish voice, English subtitle, Hungarian voice over
www.loscronocrimenes.com
Hungarian distributor: Cinetel.

This fiendishly clever Spanish time travel thriller – set for an English language remake – follows middleaged Hector into a nightmare. Glimpsing a naked woman in the woods near his holiday home, Hector investigates; but he is attacked by a terrifying armed stranger, and runs for his life. It soon transpires that there’s no way out: the clues Hector stumbles upon all lead him back to his own recent past…

„Nacho Vigalondo's feature debut shows that good cinematic time travelers can be done on a shoestring with the right script. Timecrimes welds a B-movie plotline to precision-engineered writing and a down-to-earth style; add an engagingly sloppy, nonplussed hero, who remains unfazed by the time-bending scrape in which he finds himself, and the result is memorably offbeat.” (Jonathan Holland)

See also:
	The Chaser		Gomorrah
	Hand of the Headless Man		The Horseman
	Long Shadows		The Bone Man
	The Moss		The Racketeer