Love and Time Travel - aka and more aptly named Chronesthesia - is hardly about time travel, except in the slimmest and most metaphoric of senses. But it does take place in New Zealand, and it's free on Amazon Prime, and worth watching, if getting visions of the future in strange but endearing ways is to your liking.Dan the lead character (well played by Hayden Weal, who wrote and directed the movie) does say to one of the several slightly-or-more deranged characters in the movie (who believes he's space traveler), "I don't space travel - I time travel." But what travels in this movie are not people but glimmerings of the future, written on window sills and coming to Dan in other ways.
There are some heart-warming stories woven into Chronesthesia, my favorite being Richard and Eve, long separated, now aged, and almost reunited due to Dan's visions and persistent sleuthing. But some good comes out of this, as Richard gets to know the son he never knew he and Eve had. Dan and Sophia (commandingly played by Michelle Ny from Top of the Lake) also offer an interesting story, with Sophia's commitment to Dan, despite his bizarre behavior, especially memorable and reassuring.
By the way, chronesthesia - the noun - means the ability of all humans to always have the past and the future in mind. Many anthologists see this as a defining characteristic of humanity, and I completely agree. Of course, thinking about the future, and seeing it in that way, is not quite the same by a long shot as seeing literal messages from the future, and I only wish Love and Time Travel had gone a little further in that time-traveling seeing-the-future direction.
It started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of The Misfits and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean" ...
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