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Bad Timing
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- For the Jim O'Rourke album named after the film see Bad Timing (Jim O'Rourke album)
Bad Timing is a 1980 film directed by Nicolas Roeg.
In Vienna, a young American woman in her twenties (Russell) is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing. With her is an Alex Linden, a 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. He investigates and tries to get Linden to confess to possible crimes involved with the case.
Contents
- 1 Critical reaction
- 2 Trivia
- 3 Featured cast
- 4 External links
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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 needed] In response, they removed the Rank logo from all UK prints of the film. The film, since its release as part of the
Criterion Collection in 2005, has received almost universally positive reviews.
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The film received the
Toronto Film Festival's highest honor, the People's Choice Award, in 1980.
Trivia
- Russell, 22 at the time, went on to marry director Roeg and have two children together.
- According to the DVD documentaries included in the Criterion release, the film wasn't released for years on home video because of complications with the soundtrack rights.
- The soundtrack features music from Tom Waits, Keith Jarrett, Billie Holiday and The Who, as well as Pachelbel's Canon in D major.
- In the film Alex Linden drives a Lancia Beta Spider.
Featured cast
