BAD TIMING: A SENSUAL OBSESSION

In these pictures with Art is Teressa Russell
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Art Garfunkel appeared in his third film, Nicholas Roeg's Bad Timing - A Sensual Obsession with Theresa Russell and Harvey Keitel. Art plays Dr. Alex Linden, an American psychoanalyst and professor at the University of Vienna. The story revolves around the passionate and often hostile relationship between Alex and the seductive Milena Flaherty (Russell). The part would turn out to be Art's most demanding acting project to date. The acting emotions were intensively passionate and required each of the lead actors to stretch beyond anything they had done before. Art Garfunkel's performance as a serious actor again received wide praise by critics. The movie won for Best Film at the Toronto Film Festival.

Directed by: Nicolas Roeg
Writer: Yale Udoff (screenplay)
Release Date: October 1980 (USA)

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.

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