These are two posters for movies by the late English auteur Nicolas Roeg.

Roeg is probably best known for Don’t Look Now, his nightmarish loose adaptation of a Daphne de Maurier story and The Man Who Fell To Earth, which memorably cast David Bowie as an alien.  Eureka and Bad Timing both came after these, and contain many stylistic similarities – specifically fractured narratives that jump back and forth in time and a preponderance of sex and death.

Bad Timing in particular is quite explicit – featuring lots of sex scenes between Theresa Russell (whom Roeg subsequently married) and Art Garfunkel, no less (of Simon and…fame). The title itself is a dark pun, reflecting how this kinky perverted love story unfolds. I remember it being quite unnerving at the time. The film was controversial upon its release, even being branded “a sick film made by sick people for sick people” by its own distributor!  Eureka meanwhile stars Gene Hackman, and also features Russell in various states of undress, this time rolling with Rutger Hauer.

The Eureka poster is the UK quad. The Bad Timing poster is the French grande, which uses an image unique to France and is very different to the UK/US posters for the original release.  The French title translates to “Investigating a Passion”, which is also a neat summation of the film.