The disquiet of the everyday: gesture and Bad Timing

An analysis of Bad Timing discerns gesture as a vital, but often overlooked aspect of the representation of gendered bodies and the female voice. While gesture can be read of performance or a specifically cinematic inflection of narrative form, a study of gesture and parapraxis in the stasis of the body and silence in language discerns a subject position that disquiets, inscribing as it does the everyday violence in the image of woman and is evocative of a crisis in the historical representation of women in cinema.