BAD TIMING

“One of Roeg’s grandest achievements of baroque bravado.” -- Museum of Modern Art

One of filmmaker Nic Roeg’s greatest innovations is his total shattering of the linear narrative. His high-wire elliptical storytelling in DON’T LOOK NOW, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH and PERFORMANCE is legendary, but his creepiest fractured fairytale is easily BAD TIMING.

Skipping back and forth through time, we open with a catatonic Theresa Russell undergoing a mysterious operation while Art Garfunkel(!) looks on and recalls their stormy relationship in the city of Vienna, beginning with a chance meeting at a party and soon degenerating into a series of psychologically violent games that treat sex and power interchangeably. Harvey Keitel(!) also makes a surprise appearance as the police detective tasked with figuring out just what exactly happened. Critically lambasted upon its release, this off-the-cuff study in obsession is still capable of wildly polarizing viewers.