Timecrimes: Spanish Time Travel on a Shoestring

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Most time-travel films spend their money apologising for the time travel. They build the chrome corridor, they hire the physicist to explain the corridor, they cut to a wall of monitors so a technician can gasp at a readout. Nacho Vigalondo’s Los Cronocrímenes — released internationally as Timecrimes in 2007 — spends nothing, explains nothing, and ends up more rigorous than almost any studio picture in the genre. It is a feature debut shot around a single house and the wooded hillside behind it, with a cast you could count on one hand and a time machine that looks like a domestic water tank filled with milk.

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Timecrimes: Spanish Time Travel on a Shoestring