Performance
by Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
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Actor: Anita Pallenberg, Ann Sidney, James Fox, Mich?le Breton, Mick JaggerDirector: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
Brand: JAGGER,MICK
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Psychological drama about a criminal on the run who hides out with a rock star.Running Time: 105 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R Age:?085391116875 UPC:?085391116875 Manufacturer No:?111687
DVD Reviews of Performance
DVD Review: Performance
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the very best! for a surprise, play the opening sequence frame by frame.DVD Review: Cult Favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie, very disturbing, lots of stories about the shooting/editing of this film. Google is your friend for them, don't take my word for it.DVD Review: ANOTHER OLD MOVIE
Summary: 2 Stars
ANOTHER OLD MOVIE???...WELL...YES, HOWEVER IT IS FUN TO SEE A VERY YOUNG MICK JAGGER AND HE PERFORMS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS "MEMO FROM TURNER"...SO...IF YOU'RE INTO THE CAMPINESS OF OLD ROCK AND ROLL, YOU'LL ENJOY THIS TOO LONG AND SOMETIMES INDECIPHERABLE MOVIE.DVD Review: Christmas present for my sister, Marilyn, as she longed for Performance to own
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought I was just giving this a rating, but my sister, who is sixteen years older than me, says that Performance with Mick Jagger is one of the best, most original movies of its times, early seventies. So, perhaps that would perk your interest. I know she is not wrong! DVD Review: A Weird but Rewarding Trip Back in Time
Summary: 4 Stars
I just bought this DVD new from Amazon and love it. Hadn't seen the movie since I was in college in '70 and HAD to see it again. It was worth it. My wife walked in while Jagger is singing Memo from Turner and was transfixed. We have seen the Stones in concert multiple times, but she had never seen Jagger like that. To me, this film is a cult classic, not because of the acting or the story, but because of its total weirdness, its mesmerizing music (particularly Ry Cooder's signature guitar), the presence of Jagger, and its sexual themes (hedonism, threesomes, androgeny). A mediocre movie that is totally hypnotic.
Description of Performance
Psychological drama about a criminal on the run who hides out with a rock star."I like that. Turn it up!" Performance is the Altamont of '60s cinema; psychedelic and hallucinatory, decadent and depraved, polymorphous-perverse. And you can dance to it! Melding the sex, drugs, and rock & roll ethos of swinging '60s London with the gangster film, Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's genre-bending cult classic is so mind blowing that star James Fox did not act in a film again for nearly a decade. Fox stars as Chas, an "out of date" enforcer for crime kingpin Harry Flowers. Chas is a "nutcase," who likes "a little cavort," but when he kills someone he wasn't supposed to, he is forced to go on the lam. He takes refuge in a basement room belonging to Turner (Mick Jagger), a former rock star who has "lost his demon" and now lives as a recluse in his dilapidated house with his secretary/lover, Pherber (Anita Pallenberg, who was Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards' girlfriend at the time), and an androgynous French girl (Michele Breton). They enjoy a little cavorting themselves. In these drug-strewn surroundings, worlds collide and identities merge. "I know who I am," Chas tells Harry early on. He (and viewers) will become less sure as Performance unfolds. Completed in 1968 but shelved for two years, Performance was originally rated X and has been redesignated R. But it's still strong, potent stuff. With its elliptical editing, mirror images, and echoed dialogue that bridges the two worlds, Performance may not become clearer with repeat viewings, but there are fresh discoveries to be made each time. The killer soundtrack features Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, rap revolutionaries the Last Poets, and Jagger's own astounding "Memo from Turner." "I know a thing of two about performing, my boy," Turner tells Chas at one point. "The only performance that makes it... that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness." Performance makes it all the way. As Roeg is quoted in a featurette produced for this DVD, "After all this time, its mystery is part of its magic and attraction." --Donald Liebenson
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