Bad Timing

(1980)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 170 votes

Genres: Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Year: 1980

Runtime: 129 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Cast: Art Garfunkel, Тереза Расселл, Харви Кейтель, Денхолм Эллиотт, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie, Уильям Хуткинс, Юджин Липински, Джордж Рубисек, Stefan Gryff

Plot

Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.

The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.