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‘Timestalker’ Review: A Hopeless Romantic Keeps Tripping Up in Dark and Deliriously Funny Reincarnation Comedy
Time is the great revealer in Alice Lowe's crafty 'Timestalker,' about a woman whose centuries-spanning search for love keeps ending in heartbreak.
From the tourist who develops a taste for murder on her road trip with her boyfriend in Ben Wheatley’s “Sightseers” to a mother-to-be whose baby inspires far more violence than just kicking around in her belly in her own directorial debut, “Prevenge,” Lowe has sacrificed audience approval for the license to explore darker corners of the female experience. Yet in the 1980s New York where Barnard has become a pop star dreamboat for the masses, Agnes comes across as a truly deranged fan, coldly telling a female friend (Tanya Reynolds) who seems as if she could be something more, “I’d rather be a slave than a lesbian” without any self-awareness. Lowe can senses when the film might grow tiresome when Agnes is stuck in a self-defeating cycle, apt to throw in a particularly sadistic flourish into the mix any time a feeling of redundancy could set in.
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