Product Description
Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), 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. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain, Goya Awards, Sundance Film Festival,
