Bad Timing (1980)

Director:

Nicolas Roeg

Guionista:

Yale Udoff (screenplay)

Release Date:

octubre 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Frase comercial:

His terrifying obsession took them to the brink of death and beyond. [Video Australia]

Plot:

The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt...

Plot Keywords:

Raped By Doctor | Obsession | Cigarette | Smoking | Sex

Awards:

3 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A brilliant film about emotional instability, love, hate, madness and crime.

Cast

Art Garfunkel	...	Alex Linden
Theresa Russell	...	Milena Flaherty
Harvey Keitel	...	Inspector Netusil
Denholm Elliott	...	Stefan Vognic
Daniel Massey	...	Foppish Man
Dana Gillespie	...	Amy Miller
William Hootkins	...	Col. Taylor
Eugene Lipinski	...	Hospital Policeman
George Roubicek	...	Policeman #1
Stefan Gryff	...	Policeman #2
Sevilla Delofski	...	Czech Receptionist
Robert Walker	...	Konrad
Gertan Klauber	...	Ambulance Man
Ania Marson	...	Dr. Schneider
Lex van Delden	...	Young Doctor

También conocida como:

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (USA)
Illusions (UK) (working title)
Contratiempo (Spain) [es]

Duración:

123 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

English | German | Czech | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

West Germany:18 | UK:18 | Singapore:R21 | Canada:18+ (Ontario) | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | USA:R | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Rank Organisation, The

Trivialidades:

The film did not find favour with the Rank Organisation, one executive calling it "a sick film made by sick people for sick people". As a result, Rank's logo was removed from all UK release prints.

Quotes:

Milena Flaherty: If we're gonna meet, it might as well be now.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Zomergasten: (#18.2)" (2005)

Soundtrack:

It's The Same Old Story

A brilliant film about emotional instability, love, hate, madness and crime.

I can't wait to see this masterpiece again. I hate slushy romantic flicks but this is not one of them.

The world of people with extremely unstable emotions is brilliantly evoked in this film.

I love the way they are both *so* messed up. There is no happy ending, this is no fairy-tale romance. The constant breakups, the creepy, almost stalking behaviours, the outbursts, the attacks and counter-attacks and violence and general hell that is borderline personality - it's all there.

Russell's character is a complete mess - drunk, angry, crazy - she has a string of boyfriends with whom she rows constantly, she smashes things up, she smashes herself up and generally goes completely ape.

Garfunkel is brilliant - he has much the same trouble as his girlfriend but he *seems* more subdued, although he hides it better, he keeps coming back to her because *he's the same*.

Keitel's detached, manipulating cop who tries to unravel the whole thing is probably his best ever work. He's either the consummate professional, calmly picking up the pieces after some crazy and damaged people have been desperately trying to destroy themselves and each other, or he's a crafty, manipulating, evil so-and-so - you're never quite sure.

If you like seriously messed-up movies, this film is for you!