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Actors: Stellan Skarsgard, Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Saffron Burrows
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Timecode |
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Lauren (Tripplehorn) makes out with her lover Rose (Hayek) in a limo and then eavesdrops jealously as Rose goes to have sex with movie producer Alex (Skarsgard) at the rear of his screening room between meetings. Alex's wife (Burrows) announces she's leaving him, breaks down in a women's room, then walks home with a cocaine-sniffing actress friend and may later have sex with her. Drunken Alex laughs as various people pitch movie projects, and puts off Rose when she requests an audition. Another director says she'd be perfect for his project, and she excitedly calls Lauren, who is still steaming with jealousy. Holly Hunter, Kyle McLachlan, Glenne Headly, and Julian Sands turn up in cameos. The plot of this film is fairly stupid and forgettable (there's even a hokey earthquake sequence); what's memorable is that its entire 97 minutes was shot in one basically continuous sequence, by four cameras rolling simultaneously at different locations (mostly on the 8800 block of West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood), which run continuously on screen and have occasionally overlapping action. Writer-director Figgis, who made "Leaving Las Vegas," concocted a bare-bones plot, let the actors improvise much of their dialogue and action, ran them through the entire sequence 15 times over 2 weeks, and released the 15th "take." The result is a technical -- and to a lesser extent, acting -- tour-de-force that only partially and fitfully works as meaningful drama.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Timecode |
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Plot
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
- seduction (yum!)
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- actor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- producer/director
Age:
- 40's-50's
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- rude people
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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