Written by James M. Tate / 11/25/2018 / No comments / art garfunkel , cop , crime , denholm elliott , eighties , harvey keitel , neo noir , nicolas roeg , theresa russell , thriller
NICOLAS ROEG CHEATING DEATH IN VIENNA WITH 'BAD TIMING'
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Theresa Russell playing a color test book in BAD TIMING |
Initially taking place at a hospital emergency room where Theresa Russell's Milena is being kept alive by desperate surgeons, BAD TIMING consists of flashbacks concerning her doomed romance with leading man Art Garfunkel as Alex. The most intriguing aspect of Nicolas Roeg's comparably obscure motion picture is how a dying Milena is edited into sporadic bouts of love-making, laughter, arguments, more love-making, tantrums, aspersions, more tantrums, wandering through Vienna and even a quick road trip along desert terrain, like where the late auteur shaped his future assisting David Lean on a little excursion titled LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before carving-out his own desolate territory for WALKABOUT...
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Criterion Cover of Bad Timing |
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Bad Timing RATES: ***1/2 |
And as usual, his creative camerawork literally makes the movie while the actors merely follow along. Save for an exceptional Theresa Russell's sexually riddled femme fatale, who's also an oblivious victim of what makes this feature ultimately daring, and controversial. Like STRAW DOGS and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE before, BAD TIMING is an example of otherwise "progressive" critics mixing up and/or blending together a fictional character's cruel actions with an avant garde director ambiguously pulling the strings, and without taking sides.
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Art Garfunkel and a Goat take a ride in BAD TIMING |
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