Bad Timing Review

Bad Timing
Following a young woman's attempted suicide, a cop pieces together the terrible sequence of events that lead up to it.

by Kim Newman |
Published on
Release Date:

01 Jan 1980

Running Time:

123 minutes

Certificate:

18

Original Title:

Bad Timing

This labyrinthine psychological drama is almost like a cut-up Columbo episode, savagely tackling the whodunit and continental romance genres.

Hallucinatory, kaleidoscope flashes follow the growth and disintegration of Czech good-time girl Theresa Russell's love affair with American psychologist Art Garfunkel, while obsessive cop Harvey Keitel pieces together a puzzle that leads to a shocking revelation of what these people have done to each other.

Roeg retains his knack for getting amazing work from singers you'd think couldn't act, but also draws a career-best performance from Russell as the maddening Milena.

One of Nicolas Roeg's most challenging exercises in time-bending.
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