AFI Dallas International Film Festival - ‘Time Crimes’

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Description

(Spain, 2007, 90 mins)
In Spanish with English subtitles

Directed By: Nacho Viglondo

Hector sits on a lawn chair outside his country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars. Catching sight of what appears to be a nude woman amidst the trees, he hikes up to investigate. When he’s attacked by a sinister figure, Hector takes refuge in a laboratory atop the hill, hiding in a peculiar scientific contraption. Moments later, he emerges—only to find that it’s hours earlier. Time has a lot in store for Hector.

Nacho Vigalondo has a great instinct, moving effortlessly between a tense, disquieting atmosphere and a relentless, driving energy. His story of an ordinary man flung into circumstances far beyond his comprehension (and perhaps his control) is propelled by a deeper curiosity than genre antics alone will satisfy. Ever more desperate to decipher the web of cause and effect surrounding him, Hector becomes increasingly complicit in the very situation he’s trying to escape.

Information from the AFI website

Some nearby drink specials on April 6th

• Hook Line and Sinker: 4 pm - 7 pm: $1.75 domestics, $2.75 imports
• Round Up Saloon: 3 pm - 9 pm: $1 off all bar drinks
• Phases: 12 pm - 9 pm: $2.50 domestic bottles, $2.50 wells
• Gloria's (Dallas / Lemmon & Douglas): 11 am - 7 pm: $2.99 margaritas
• The Fish: 5 pm - 11 pm: $3 large hot sake, $2 drafts, $3 you call it, $4 house wine; $3 hot edamame, $3 California, Spicy Tuna and Philly Rolls, $3 Chicken Kushiyaki and $3 Beef Kushiyaki

Some nearby restaurants

• Sushi Zushi
• Stoneleigh P
• Thai Lotus Kitchen
• Greenz (Dallas / Uptown)
• Gui Restaurant and Bar

Some nearby events on April 6th

• AFI Dallas International Film Festival - 'Lifted', Landmark Magnolia Theater and Bar, 5 p.m.
• The Blonde, The Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead, Dallas Theater Center, 7:30 p.m.
• Whodunnit Previews, Theatre Three, 7:30 p.m.
• PCPC Arts Festival, Gables Villa Rosa, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• AFI Dallas International Film Festival - 'Bigger, Stronger, Faster*', Landmark Magnolia Theater and Bar, 4:30 p.m.

Event posted March 11, 2008
Last updated March 11, 2008