Lowe performs Agnes, a lady within the 1600s who vows to observe the condemned preacher she’s besotted with by means of time. Reincarnated by means of totally different eras, her many lives are intertwined with the roguish Alex (Aneurin Barnard), the brutish George (Nick Frost), the loyal Meg (Tanya Reynolds), and the mercurial Scipio (Jacob Anderson). Agnes goes from peasant to gentlewoman, by way of huge wigs and outlandish deaths, to rock groupie within the ’80s. Impressed by Powell and Pressburger, in addition to flights of fancy in movies together with Braziland The Fisher King, it’s very British, humorous, and deadpan whereas additionally being colourful, sophisticated, and extremely philosophical.
“I believe lots of people react to it as, ‘Oh, it’s only a mild rom-com, isn’t it?’ I imply, it’s high-concept. However for me, it’s fairly critical,” says Lowe. “It’s reincarnation, nevertheless it’s about time as effectively. And it’s about second probabilities and fucking up. All of these issues that you simply get in rom-coms historically, however I wished to replace that and form of go, I believe girls are allowed to speak about existentialism now.”
Lowe is a mainstay of British TV comedy, co-wrote and starred in Ben Wheatley’s horror comedy Sightseers, and made her function directorial debut with Prevenge, which was shot whereas Lowe was closely pregnant and follows a lady whose unborn child appears to drive her on a murderous rampage. Although Timestalker isn’t strictly talking a chiller, it comes with splashes of gore and a dusting of people horror in its opening phase, which was impressed by a real-life story a couple of masks present in Scotland worn by an unlawful preacher who preached the Covenant (part of the Bible banned by King James) and who was put to demise. It’s creepy. There’s a great joke a couple of fish spouse. Agnes pledges her everlasting like to a person she barely is aware of. Then she falls over a canine.
“The joke throughout the movie is that nobody can escape. They’re who they’re; it doesn’t matter what time or place they’re in, they’re the identical individuals. And that’s actually annoying to them,” she explains. “No one within the movie is falling in love with the fitting individual. They’re all falling in love with the poisonous, worst individual they might fall in love with, which is form of like actuality. Agnes is form of an fool as effectively. I believe it’s fairly transgressive in the meanwhile. To have a silly feminine character is sort of difficult to the viewers.”
Although it’s a broad comedy in some methods, Timestalker is intentionally provocative, specializing in a vacuous male muse, a deluded protagonist, and that includes an aerobics sequence shot like a horror film. It additionally comes at a time when stalker documentaries are all over the place—take a look at Netflix, and also you’ll be introduced with a wealth of terrifying true-life tales.
“She may have a scary documentary made about her!” Lowe jokes about Agnes.
