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Overview

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7.1/10   1,919 votes
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Director:
Nicolas Roeg
Writer:
Yale Udoff (screenplay)
Contact:
View company contact information for Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
October 1980 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
His terrifying obsession took them to the brink of death and beyond. [Video Australia] more
Plot:
The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins more
User Comments:
Nicolas Roeg delves into erotic obsession in this film, with surprising results… more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
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
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (USA)
Illusions (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:
123 min
Country:
UK
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Theresa Russell and Nicolas Roeg fell in love during the shooting of the film. They later married, had two children and were later divorced. more
Quotes:
Milena Flaherty: I'm not ambitious, not an artist, not a poet, not a revolutionary. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Zomergasten: (#18.2)" (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Delusion Of The Fury more

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16 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Nicolas Roeg delves into erotic obsession in this film, with surprising results…, 30 August 2008
7/10

His movie rates high in production value and acting and has an innovative approach to an old story…

The film is basically a character study… Alex (Art Garfunkel) is a depressingly dark and shadowy American psychoanalyst living in Vienna… Theresa Russell plays Milena, a resonant, carefree American girl… They meet by chance at a party and are thrown into a roller-coaster ride of an erotic relationship… He wants to smash her free spirit because he can't understand it, but she won't let him… The result is a near-fatal break-up…

Roeg comes close to the story from the middle (obeying Jean-Luc Godard's authoritative saying, a film "must have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." We quickly move to the different parts of Alex and Milena's relationship, moving through time as if it were Jell-O. The editing is intricate, but not confusing… As we change location back and forth, we begin to see more clearly how these two unlikely lovers ever got together…

The motion picture is filled with exceptional images, and Theresa Russell is outstanding…

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Christopher Walken should've played Alex Pinback-4
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maze picture owned by Alex + Netusil roy_rutter-2
Absolute dead ringer for Milena! by_candlelight
Country where he proposes? dawise_guy666
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