Bad timing [videorecording] / Janus Films ; a Nicolas Roeg film ; screenplay by Yale Udoff ; produced by Jeremy Thomas ; directed by Nicolas Roeg ; a Recorded Picture Company production ; Rank Film Distributors Ltd.
Art Garfunkel (Alex Linden), Theresa Russell (Milena Flaherty), Harvey Keitel (Inspector Netusil), Denholm Elliott (Stefan Vognic). Originally produced as a British motion picture in 1980. Special features: Trade Secrets: Nicolas Roeg and Jeremy Thomas [featurette] (28 min.) (2004); Theresa Russell [featurette] (19 min.) (2005); Deleted scenes [featurette] (17 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Gallery; booklet includes the essays "The men who didn't know something" by Richard Combs and "A case of bad timing: Art Garfunkel's real-life tragedy" by Chris Hodenfield.
Contents:
Opening credits -- Good-byes -- Seduction -- Women and men -- Power plays -- What's normal? -- Maze -- Sex and suffocation -- Husband -- Paranoia and lies -- Jealousy -- How do you get a divorce? -- "It's what you want, huh?" -- Morocco -- "Bugger off" -- Confrontation -- Death of old Milena -- Overdose -- Interrogation -- "The Crime" -- Ravishment and rape -- Not enough -- Color bars.
Summary:
Alex is a cold, distant, fiercely intellectual research psychiatrist from New York, teaching in Vienna. Milena, an Army brat, has wandered back through the countries she was raised in to find herself there, too. They meet at a party, are immediately attracted to each other, and fall quickly into a sexually obsessive relationship. Milena has a husband across the border named Stefan, and a drinking problem. This does not make Alex very happy. Their relationship becomes a fight for power, waged with manipulation, drugs, despair, need, and lust, and it is never clear if there is any real 'winner'.
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