Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Bad Timing
- Director
- Nic Roeg
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 123 mins
Nic Roeg‘s elliptical, fashback-driven tale of sexual obsession, which opens with Theresa Russell‘s suicide attempt in Cold War Vienna. Detective Harvey Keitel then sets out to piece together the details of her sadistic relationship with repressed psychiatrist Art Garfunkel. Grisly, misanthropic and misogynist revelations ensue, which provoked outrage in some quarters on the film’s release back in 1980. Indeed, Bad Timing was even branded “a sick film made by sick people for sick people” by its own distributor The Rank Organsiation, which must surely have helped keep punters away.
It’s back on screen in the The Balance of Things: the Cinematic Imagination of Nic Roeg strand of Cinema Rediscovered.
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