Director
Nicolas Roeg
Music (original)
Richard Hartley
Cast
Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel
123'
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1980
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Mystery, Drama, Thriller
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
German, Czech, French, English
Arguably Roeg's most powerful and best-edited film, Bad Timing is a virtuoso, sexually charged psychodrama about a doomed love affair between a psychoanalyst and a free-spirited young woman. Slowly but surely, Roeg reassembles his kaleidoscopic narrative into a coherent pattern.
Nicolas Roeg's most powerful film is a virtuoso, sexually charged psychodrama, brimming with intense and destructive emotions and desires. A guest lecturer of psychoanalysis Alex (Art Garfunkel) meets the free-spirited Milena (Theresa Russell) in a Viennese art gallery adorned with the golden canvases of fin de siècle painter Gustav Klimt. Later, as they admire The Kiss, Milena remarks how happy the tightly entwined lovers appear. "That's because they don't know each other yet," Alex replies—unaware that he's foreshadowing the tragic course of their own relationship. Bad Timing lays bare the darker side of romantic passion: the selfishness of a love steeped in lust and pain. The mosaic style of Klimt's Art Nouveau paintings finds a visual counterpart in Roeg's kaleidoscopic narrative, which resembles a shattered mirror gradually reassembling into a coherent pattern.
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Credits
Directors
Nicolas Roeg
Music (original)
Richard Hartley
Cast
Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel
Scenario
Yale Udoff
Director of Photography
Anthony B. Richmond
Editors
Tony Lawson
Producers
Jeremy Thomas
Production studios
Recorded Pictures Company
Rights Owner
Park Circus
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Dialogue
German, Czech, French, English
Countries of production
United Kingdom
Screenplay based on
"Ho Tentato Di Vivere" (Constanzo Constantini)
Year
1980
Filmography
Nicolas Roeg
Now Let's Talk About Music (short, 1967), Performance (1970), Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Glastonbury Fayre (1975), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980), Black Out (short, 1982), Eureka (1983), Insignificance (1985), Castaway (1986), Aria (1987), Track 29 (1988), Sweet Bird of Youth (TV film, 1989), The Witches (1990), Cold Heaven (1991), Heart of Darkness (TV film, 1994), Hotel Paradise (short, 1995), Two Deaths (1995), Full Body Massage (TV film, 1995), The Sound of Claudia Schiffer (short, 2000), Puffball (2007)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
