Dark British Rom-Com 'Timestalker' Will Arrive In U.S. Theaters This February

One of the buzziest British films of last year is finally making its way to America: The dark romantic comedy Timestalker, which aims to "encapsulate the female romantic predicament in multiple eras" by following the story of a woman forced to reincarnate every time she falls in love with the wrong man.

The film, which played several stops on the festival circuit last year before being released in the U.K., opened to strong reviews, many of which praised its ambition and subversive sense of humor. Now, American audiences will get the chance to decide for themselves when the indie flick arrives in U.S. theaters and on-demand streaming this February.

The second feature from actress-turned-director Alice Lowe (Lockwood & Co), this film has a very different vibe from her debut effort, the 2016 comedy slasher movie Prevenge. Coated in pastel colors and boasting a more overtly romance-themed plot, Timestalker follows the story of Agnes (Lowe), a Scottish Reformation-era peasant who falls for a heretic preacher, only to find herself accidentally killed and reincarnated a century later in 1730s England. The pattern continues into the modern day, as Agnes keeps falling for various versions of the same man, dying a gruesome death, and reincarnation to start the process all over again a hundred years later. Her only hope of breaking the cycle is to realize that she deserves better than the man she's spent centuries chasing.