BAD TIMING

UK, 1980, COLOR, DCP, 122’, ENGLISH

An American couple engages in a vampiric, and ultimately destructive, passion in Vienna. What on paper seems rather commonplace, in Roeg’s hands turns into an unforgettable narrative labyrinth. Through an elaborate editing, the director of “Don’t Look Now” goes back and forth between past and present in a way that lets events of yesterday cast their shadows on the present and seemingly insignificant details make unexpected connections. Through this masterful mosaic, “Bad Timing” becomes a gripping drama about the violent conflict between desires and denials, about the complex affairs of the human heart and the inability of science to decipher them. 

DIRECTOR: Nicolas Roeg                                                                                                        SCREENWRITER: Yale Udoff
DoP: Anthony B. Richmond
MUSIC: Richard Hartley
EDITOR: Tony Lawson
PRINCIPAL CAST: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey

NICOLAS ROEG (1928-2018)
A cornerstone of British modernism, Roeg started at the bottom of the professional film ladder, rose through the second units, moved on to cinematographer and only at 42 got his first directorial credit. Little recognized, though heaps of contemporary followers attest to his importance.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
1990 The Witches 
1980 Bad Timing 
1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth 
1973 Don’t Look Now 
1971 Walkabout 
1970 Performance