Sundance. Timecrimes.

"[E]ven though it's not too hard to stay a step or two ahead of Nacho Vigalando's Timecrimes, it's still a nifty little genre piece, examining what happens when an ordinary middle-aged guy gets chased by a masked villain into the lair of a man who offers to hide him in his time machine, which then - whoops! - activates, sending our hero back into the very recent past," writes the AV Club's Noel Murray. "[W]hile the film as a whole could be a little funnier and/or scarier, it really couldn't be much zippier."

"Vigalondo is certainly channeling Philip K Dick with his singular plot line that quickly grows in complexity when the moral and logical conundrums of archetypal time-travel dilemmas come into play," writes Kevin Buist at the SpoutBlog. "The question is whether Timecrimes finds a unique voice within this well-explored genre."

Updated through 1/25.

Twitch's Todd Brown has news that producer Steve Zaillian is angling for the English-language remake.

IndieWIRE interviews Vigalondo; so does Scott Weinberg at Cinematical, where he notes that Jette Kernion called it one of "the most pleasant surprises of Fantastic Fest."

Update, 1/25: Online listening tip. Kevin Buist talks with Vigalondo for the SpoutBlog.

Posted by dwhudson at January 20, 2008 8:01 AM