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Movie Review: Performance
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie, especially if you are a Mick Jagger fan and like collecting cult films.Movie Review: Performance
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the very best! for a surprise, play the opening sequence frame by frame.Movie Review: Performance
Summary: 5 Stars
Good to see the film again. Kind of a cult classic as I see it.Movie Review: Hallucinatory.
Summary: 4 Stars
Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
While I have to say that I'm never entirely sure what either Cammell (Demon Seed) or Roeg (Walkabout) are entirely on about, I do know that the both of them do make pictures that are very easy on the eyes. It's very easy to sit back, relax, and just get lost in the lushness of Performance. Who gives a whit about, well, what it's about?
What it is about, though, is a gangster named Chas (Sexy Beast's James Fox) who, on the run from his old gang, ends up renting a room in the house of reclusive rocker Turner (Mick Jagger). Turner's life is sex- and drug-fueled, but there's far more to him than that; he's a decadent philosopher who finds Chas' protestations of innocence (he claims to be a juggler, though everyone sees through that as soon as it's uttered) intriguing. Chas, on his end of the odd relationship, is simply trying to hole up until he can get out of the country. You've seen enough British gangster films to know that this will not end well.
It all rolls along like gangbusters, absolutely fascinating, until a Rolling Stones video is injected not long before the end. I assume it was in Mick Jagger's contract. But hey, the song isn't all bad. Aside from that, a fine little film that's been neglected for too long. *** ½
Movie Review: Time Capsule
Summary: 4 Stars
"Performance" is a perfect time capsule of late 60s London and the decadent rock scene; unlike most period decadence it has somehow avoided becoming quaint.
Jagger gives the most schizo performance in film history, well represented by the cover. As the rock star he is so drugged and laid out he is dull, a black hole sucking up considerable energy in his scenes. Then in a fantasy rock sequence where he's a godfather of crime singing "Memo From Turner" he's a nova star, bursting energy. That's another way of saying as an actor he has no technique, at all. Still doesn't to this day.
Of particular interest to Stones freaks he and Keith's consort of that time Anita P. actually fornicate on camera; perhaps it was as close as Mick could get to the same with Keith, we'll call in Joyce Brothers.
There is a gay sex tease that is a lack of nerve, though very nervy for the time. Decca probably suggested that it would be best not to go there completely. Or had someone suggest that on their behalf.
Very close to being a great film. Certainly worth checking out if you haven't. Marianne Faithful should have been draped over a bed for a shot or two but she was playing Ophelia at the time or something.