Timecode

Director Mike Figgis (“Leaving Las Vegas”) uses a quartet of cameras to film in four continuous takes in this involving drama. The results, which are shown on a screen split into quadrants, offer interconnecting storylines set in and around a Hollywood film-company office peopled with movie types. Salma Hayek and Stellan Skarsgard star. Holly Hunter, Jean Tripplehorn, Julian Sands., Novel film offers four interconnected storylines presented on a screen split into quadrants. All the drama is set in and around a film company’s office., Director Mike Figgis helmed this ground-breaking experimental feature, filmed with four synchronized digital video cameras in four separate locations. The story, outlined in advance but otherwise improvised, was enacted in a single continuous take, like a stage play, with the unedited images from all four locations presented on the screen at once. Figgis and his crew chose the best single run-through, and the result is the film’s final release version. The story focuses on four main characters around the casting sessions for a film called Bitch of Louisiana to be directed by Lester Moore (Richard Edson): Alex Green (Stellan Skarsgard), the studio executive overseeing Moore’s project; his wife Emma (Saffron Burrows); gangster Lauren Hathaway (Jeanne Tripplehorn); and her unfaithful lover Rose (Salma Hayek). These characters’ paths cross as murder, infidelity, and dirty dealings are interrupted by an earthquake and its aftershocks. Time Code 2000 also features Kyle MacLachlan, Holly Hunter, Julian Sands, Steven Weber, Danny Huston, Viveka Davis, and Laurie Metcalf., Mike Figgis’s audacious, groundbreaking film fills the screen with four images, with the story switching from one to the other. The story centres on the casting for a film with Richard Edson as the director, Stellan Skarsgard as the producer, his wife, dangerous Jeanne Tripplehorn and her unfaithful lover Salma Hayek. As infidelity, murder and earthquakes rear their ugly heads, so characters intersect in this fascinating cinematic experimental work., Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follows a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner and a Hollywood film production company., One day, four screens, four characters. A philandering movie mogul, his distraught wife, a lesbian actress and her cheating partner. Filmed in real time on constantly running digital cameras, this is revolutionary stuff from director Mike Figgis.