According to the writer and cultural theorist Lauren Berlant, “the modern love plot requires that, if you are a woman, you must at least entertain believing in love’s capacity both to rescue you from your life and to give you a new one”. “To be needed,” they continue, “demonstrates your feminine worth”. It is this belief, so often celebrated by cinema’s love stories, which is taken to task in Alice Lowe’s Timestalker—a film that examines the corrosive impact of the…
