Bad Timing is a 1980 British film directed by Nicolas Roeg . His film rates high in production value . Nicolas Roeg here takes an innovative approach to tell an old story.
An American woman is taken into a hospital after overdosing on pills. A curious detective (Harvey Keitel ) suspects that there is more into this matter. Through several flashbacks,we come to know about the real incident. Alex (Art Garfunkel) is an American psychoanalyst who meets with Milena (Theresa Russell ). They meet with each other at a party and develop a relationship. Milena was a carefree American girl . She suffers from depression and is married to an old man . Alex finds it difficult to cope with her complicated lifestyle. He tries to control her and it results in more damage.
Nicolas Roeg used an interesting method in this film. Flashbacks are essential to the film's formation. He doesn't use the flashbacks in normal way. It comes in many forms : as flashbacks within flashbacks and even flash forwards within flashbacks.
Art Garfunkel gives a good performance as a controlling, possessive person. Theresa Russell is great as Milena, a woman who doesn't want to be "owned". She really gives a passionate performance and shows an incredible range here. The best performance of the film comes from the charismatic Harvey Keitel . Harvey , as the detective who investigates the truth so hard that at one point he seems to hallucinate the facts. He plays the role of a bizarre police inspector to perfection.
The film mainly details the doomed affair between two persons. It focuses on a time in our lives when we understand that our relationship is finished. On the flip side, the film's narrative structure makes it difficult to follow . There are times when we just want to stop watching it because the narration disturbs us.
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