Bad Timing
Amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna, psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) becomes mired in an erotically charged affair with the elusive Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell). When their all-consuming passion takes a life-threatening turn, Inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel) is assigned to piece together the sordid details. Acclaimed for its innovative editing, raw performances, and stirring musical score, featuring Tom Waits, the Who, and Billie Holiday, Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing is a masterful, deeply disturbing foray into the dark world of sexual obsession.
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A Harrowing 2 Hours... - BIKO
Art Garfunkle convincingly plays a character so cold,so controlling, so able to detach, we're repelled as though watching a cobra. Thank god I've never seen him in a movie since. Therese Russel is
as always wonderful to look at, a chameleon, and it's a pleasure to see the late and much-lamented by me Denholm Elliot. An added plus is a young strange Harvey Keitel. The sound-track is moody,
eclectic, and appropriate. Nicolas Roeg directed a
couple of my favourite all-time movies- " The Man Who Fell to Earth " and " Performance " but this one didn't move me.A stimulating movie ! - kap0n3
A stimulting movie , because you have what i consider to be an honest perspective on a human relationship . To wit , a beautiful woman , wayward/rebellious ?? , with her own ethos on living her own life , and her own individuality , becoming embroiled in a relationship destined to cause her harm due to her emancipation/individuality . Mixed in with this , we have the cultural (klimt etc) undertones (as evidenced in the interpretation of his pictures and , from an art point of view , colour arrangement )and the psychoanalytical infusions (ie freud etc) - sex as a factor in mental development - ego and id - but why is the "protagonist" , a supposedly intellectual guy who is fully aware of the psychoanalytical arguments , drawn into the "primaeval" role ? roeg juxtaposes all these elements , in the manner to which he is renowned , to produce a complex character study with many layers to appreciate . All that , and an opening track from tom waits and harvey keitel to boot!!Bad Timing - Coco
Perfect for a very bleak cool-and-reserved-male-intellectual-as-polyglot-of-sexual-badness double feature with Losey’s The Accident, and an even more deeply unsettling and Klimt-esque kaleidoscopic portrait of an object of desire refracted through the displaced shards of the male ego’s smashed-disco-ball fragments, Nicholas Roeg’s greatest film is a (again, VERY BLEAK) fresco that traps its two central American houseflies (played by pot-heady Garfunkel and brutally-hot-to-the-touch Russell) in the thick, gossamer honey of old European erotic metempsychosis. The perverted payoff is pure pleasure principal paralysis! and the sordid feeling in your gut is not helped by greasy Keitel’s smarmily maned inspecteur de la couer. A film whose structure makes one think of the big boys/girl – Joyce, Proust, Woolf, Elliot, Beckett et. all. See it. Be it. Bleed it like a hysterectomy yo!
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A Harrowing 2 Hours... - BIKO
Art Garfunkle convincingly plays a character so cold,so controlling, so able to detach, we're repelled as though watching a cobra. Thank god I've never seen him in a movie since. Therese Russel is
as always wonderful to look at, a chameleon, and it's a ...A stimulating movie ! - kap0n3
A stimulting movie , because you have what i consider to be an honest perspective on a human relationship . To wit , a beautiful woman , wayward/rebellious ?? , with her own ethos on living her own life , and her own individuality , becoming embroiled in a ...Bad Timing - Coco
Perfect for a very bleak cool-and-reserved-male-intellectual-as-polyglot-of-sexual-badness double feature with Losey’s The Accident, and an even more deeply unsettling and Klimt-esque kaleidoscopic portrait of an object of desire refracted through the displaced ...