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 |