Bad Timing

Bad Timing is a 1980 British psychological thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel and Denholm Elliott. The plot focuses on an American woman and a psychology professor living in Vienna, and, largely told through nonlinear flashbacks, examines the details of their turbulent relationship as uncovered by a detective investigating her apparent suicide attempt.

In Cold War Vienna, Milena Russell, a young American woman in her twenties, is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing. With her is Alex Linden Garfunkel, an American psychiatrist who lives in the city as a teacher. Through myriad fragmented flashbacks, the narrative depicts the story of their romance, which ultimately amounts to an unhealthy sexual obsession on the part of Alex. Through these developments, Milena is revealed to suffer from depression while still being married to a much older man Elliott, whom she occasionally crosses the border to see during the course of her affair with Alex. Though Linden initially enjoys her freespirited ways, he grows tired of, and embittered at, her lifestyle, which includes impulsive promiscuity and heavy drinking. Through spying on Milena, Alex becomes emotionally strained, and eventually tries to control her leading to horrifying results, due in large part to very bad timing. Throughout, at the hospital where medics fight to save Milenas life, an investigator Keitel comes to realise that there may be more to her case than a simple suicide attempt. He probes, and once the truth lies brutally clear, tries to corner Alex into a confession of the possible crimes involved with Milenas accident.The film was one of the series of movies greenlit by Tony Williams at the Rank Organisation, who were increasing their production output. Rank made eight films over two years, being mostly conservative choices such as the remake of The Thirty Nine Steps. Bad Timing was the most unusual of the slate of films. Whilst Art Garfunkel was filming the film, his girlfriend committed suicide. ........

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