Bad Timing

Bad Timing

Infobox Film | name =Bad Timing


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Nicolas Roeg
producer = Jeremy Thomas
writer = Yale Udoff
starring =Art Garfunkel
Theresa Russell
Harvey Keitel
Denholm Elliott
Daniel Massey
music = Richard Hartley
cinematography = Anthony B. Richmond
editing = Tony Lawson
distributor = Rank Organisation (UK)
released = September 12, 1980 (Toronto Film Festival)
runtime = 122 Min
Uncut Restored Version
129 Min
Uncut Version
country = United Kingdom
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:119936
imdb_id = 0080408

"Bad Timing" is a 1980 film directed by Nicolas Roeg. The title of this movie was also used by musician Jim O'Rourke for his album Bad Timing.

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In Vienna, a young American woman in her twenties (Russell) is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing. With her is Alex Linden, an American psychiatrist (Garfunkel) teaching in Vienna. Through a series of fragment flashbacks the film tells the story of their romance, which ends up becoming a sexual obsession. The woman, Milena, suffers from depression and is still married to a much older man (Elliott) whom she crosses the border to see at times. Linden likes her free spirited ways at first, then grows tired of her lifestyle, which includes relationships with other men and heavy drinking. He spies on Milena and eventually tries to control her. At the hospital, an investigator (Keitel) realizes that there may be more to the case than a simple suicide attempt. He investigates and tries to get Linden to confess to possible crimes involved with the case.

Critical reaction

The film received mixed reviews. Some found the film brilliant while others, possibly put off by the rape near the end intercut with graphic emergency room footage, found the film tasteless. Its UK distributor, Rank, were appalled by what they saw, one executive calling it "a sick film made by sick people for sick people." [Citation
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The film received the Toronto Film Festival's highest honour, the People's Choice Award, in 1980 and the London Critics Circle Film Award for Best Director.

Featured cast

*Art Garfunkel as Alex Linden
*Theresa Russell as Milena Flaherty
*Harvey Keitel as Inspector Netusil
*Denholm Elliott as Stefan Vognic
*Daniel Massey as Foppish Man

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0080408|title=Bad Timing
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=303&eid=435&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by Richard Combs]


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