Alice Lowe’s second film as director is time travel comedy Timestalker, and the trailer for it has now landed.
Alice Lowe is not only a brilliant actor, but she’s also been behind the camera on some of the most esoteric, original British films of the last few years. From co-writing the screenplay of Sightseers with co-star Steve Oram, which was directed by Ben Wheatley and released in 2012, to her terrific 2016 directorial debut Prevenge, which she also wrote and starred as a pregnant woman who believes her unborn baby is telling her to murder all the men involved in her husband’s death.
Her next film is even more ambitious. Timestalker is a science fiction comedy romance, with a dash of time travel thrown into the mix. The synopsis reads as follows:
From the creative team behind PREVENGE comes… TIMESTALKER, a romantic comedy about the eternal humiliation that is the search for love, spanning the most romantic epochs of history right into the future. Follow hapless heroine Agnes (Alice Lowe) through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated a century later, before meeting him again and starting the cycle anew. It is one story told over many periods, all with the messy thrills and spills that come with daring to follow your heart. Or maybe your loins…
Agnes’ only hope in avoiding this violent fate is by finally reaching spiritual enlightenment; but how can she ever wise up when she’s destined to be a fool for love? Some lessons are just too hard to learn in one lifetime.
Lowe also stars in the film, alongside Jacob Anderson, Kate Dickie, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds and Nick Frost.
Lowe wrote and directed the film. Timestalker will be released in UK cinemas on the 11th October. You can read an exclusive interview with Lowe in our latest issue. Film Stories is proud to be the only UK movie magazine to give Timestalker its front cover.
Watch the trailer below:
