About Time
- By Anthony Sherratt
- 12 years ago
What’s it about?
A young man discovers, at the age of 21, he can travel back in time. He obviously uses this to search for love.
What did we think?
Anthony Sherratt says: Stupid movie made me cry. And by stupid I mean delightful, intelligent and whimsical.
Richard Curtis (4 Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Notting Hill and the Vincent episode of Dr Who) gives us a simple yet entertaining romantic comedy about time travel. Admittedly it’s not a common genre combination but it works and delivers some simple messages without getting preachy.
It’ll keep you both chuckling and thinking. Not a blockbuster but simply endearing.
 
		
		 The Indian girls, with hair like flowing black manes, and dressed only in a shift and short petticoat, stared dully from under the square-cut fringes on their foreheads; the noisy frizzling of fat had stopped, the fumes floated upwards in sunshine, a strong smell of burnt onions hung in the drowsy heat, enveloping the house; and the eye lost itself in a vast flat expanse of grass to the west, as if the plain between the Sierra overtopping Sulaco and the coast range away there towards Esmeralda had been as big as half the world.
The Indian girls, with hair like flowing black manes, and dressed only in a shift and short petticoat, stared dully from under the square-cut fringes on their foreheads; the noisy frizzling of fat had stopped, the fumes floated upwards in sunshine, a strong smell of burnt onions hung in the drowsy heat, enveloping the house; and the eye lost itself in a vast flat expanse of grass to the west, as if the plain between the Sierra overtopping Sulaco and the coast range away there towards Esmeralda had been as big as half the world.

