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ILLUSIONS

by Nicolas Roeg

synopsis

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.

original title: Bad Timing
country: United Kingdom
year: 1980
genre: fiction
directed by: Nicolas Roeg
film run: 123'
release date: UK 12/04/1980, IT 25/04/1980, DE 01/05/1980, FR 18/06/1980, NL 11/09/1980, PT 28/01/1982, DK 18/03/1983, NO 01/07/1987, GR 11/11/2000, CZ 05/07/2008
screenplay: Yale Udoff
cast: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel
cinematography by: Anthony B. Richmond
film editing: Tony Lawson
costumes designer: Marit Allen
producer: Jeremy Thomas
associate producer: Tim Van Rellim

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