Bad Timing - Criterion Collection

Bad Timing - Criterion Collection
by Nicolas Roeg

Bad Timing - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Art Garfunkel, Daniel Massey, Denholm Elliott, Harvey Keitel, Theresa Russell
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Czech (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion

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Movie Review: Painfully Bad
Summary: 1 Stars

This movie is useful in only one sense: It illustrates that all Criterion Collection films are not classics. This is inept at best, laughably bad in spots and sports a misogynistic streak a mile wide. Art Garfunkel is the least convincing romantic lead since Keanu Reeves--only he lacks Reeves' charisma, if you can believe it. From no camera angle is Garfunkel remotely attractive and its ludicrous that Theresa Russell would so much as give him the time of day if she weren't paid. A lot. Russell does a bit better, but the director allows her to indulge her worst acting-class instincts in spots. Keitel is just silly, pseudo German accent and all. To cap it off, in scenes where Russell's character is explored, the song "Who Are You?" blares over the soundtrack, completely shattering whatever film noir mood had been created.
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Summary of Bad Timing - Criterion Collection

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.
A choppy, unsettling meditation on sexual obsession, Nicholas Roeg's Bad Timing stars Theresa Russell and Art Garfunkel as Milena and Alex, two lovers pursuing a torrid relationship in late-1970s Vienna. The movie opens with Milena being rushed to the hospital for an apparent suicide attempt. Alex, a psychology professor, proceeds to play it cool as he's questioned by Inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel). As Milena fights for her life on the operating table, the story of how she and Alex came together is revealed in startlingly raw passages of lust and bursts of raw emotion. Roeg throws the narrative out of joint with flashbacks and jarring editing, skillfully turning this story of a love affair into a mystery. The scene in which Milena aggressively seduces Alex on a stairwell is a bravura, gutsy performance from Russell. What's even more startling is the odd casting of this film. After all, that is the bare backside of the guy who most famously provided harmonies on "Scarborough Fair." Roeg, clearly enamored with casting musicians in lead roles (David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth and Mick Jagger in Performance) also approaches the editing of the film as though it were music, with abrupt, discordant cuts and strange juxtapositions. The film--of a tradition of sexually frank films like Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris--is yet another reminder of how deeply filmmakers of the '70s were willing to mine human emotions, especially unpleasant ones. -- Ryan Boudinot

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