Timestalker (15)

A darkly hilarious spin through history, actor/film-maker Alice Lowe stars as a cosmically recurring persona in this likably chaotic anti-rom-com.

Lowe plays a woman who regenerates throughout the years, forever in love with the same man, forever destined to sacrifice herself for him, almost but not quite in possession of the knowledge that this guy is unworthy of her.

We begin withAgnes (Lowe) a Scottish peasant in 1688, attends the execution of the heretic Alex (Aneurin Barnard), only to fall madly in love. She tries to save his life. It does not end well. “I will find you,” she promises him, as a spittle of blood escapes her lips. On to the next life. It’s 1793. Agnes is now a bewigged aristocrat, whining to her servant that, despite her fine set of teeth, and financially endowed husband George (Nick Frost), there’s still a vacancy in her heart.

As the eras pass, from 1847 to 1980 to 2117, it becomes increasingly clear that this is not a story about an immortal love, but an incurable delusion. With Timestalker, Lowe has beautifully intertwined the kind of humour she’s built her reputation on.