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The Comfort of Strangers
Why this pick
Like Bad Timing, it turns an intimate encounter in a European city into a coolly unsettling study of erotic obsession, manipulation, and emotional danger.
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MOVIE1980 2h 3m GBR
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Why this pick
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Bitter Moon
Why this pick
Its corrosive sexual power games and increasingly uncomfortable recollection of a relationship echo Bad Timing’s fascination with obsession and damaged intimacy.
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Identification of a Woman
Why this pick
A psychologically evasive romance becomes a dreamy investigation of desire and absence, with the cool urban alienation and unresolved pull that suit Bad Timing.
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Possession
Why this pick
For an even more feverish take on a relationship’s collapse: intense performances, fractured psychology, Cold War Berlin, and an atmosphere of escalating emotional extremity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In Cold War Vienna, Milena (Theresa Russell), a young American woman in her twenties, is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing. With her is Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel), an American psychiatrist who lives in the city as a teacher. Through myriad fragmented Flashback (literary technique), the narrative depicts the story of their romance, which ultimately amounts to an unhealthy obsession on the part of Alex.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Theresa Russell
Milena Flaherty
Daniel Massey
Foppish Man
William Hootkins
Col. Taylor
Eugene Lipinski
Hospital Policeman
George Roubicek
Policeman #1
Gertan Klauber
Ambulance Man
Ania Marson
Dr. Schneider
Lex van Delden
Young Doctor