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Performance (1970)

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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 15  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.6/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Synopsis: Chas (James Fox), a low-level gangster, fouls up a job and finds himself on the bad side of the Organization. Suddenly on the run, he dyes his hair with red paint, calls his Mum, and starts looking for a place to hide. When Chas overhears a bohemian type describe his vacant room, his scheming mind... Chas (James Fox), a low-level gangster, fouls up a job and finds himself on the bad side of the Organization. Suddenly on the run, he dyes his hair with red paint, calls his Mum, and starts looking for a place to hide. When Chas overhears a bohemian type describe his vacant room, his scheming mind immediately seizes upon an idea, and he seeks out the boarding house as a supposed friend of the former tenant. He's given refuge in the home of reclusive, aging rock star Turner (Mick Jagger) and his lovely sidekick Pherber (Anita Pallenberg) by pretending to be a performer himself, with the ludicrous story of being a professional juggler who never once demonstrates his skills. Soon, Chas the macho mobster gets drawn into the daily life of the strange household. Upon the innocent ingestion of mind-expanding mushrooms, he finds his beliefs and his sense of identity completely undermined, as Turner and Pherber try to discover exactly what Chas's performance is hiding. Awash with ambiguous and graphic sexuality, inventive camerawork, and lush 1970s velvet-and-mirrors production design, PERFORMANCE trips along to a rock & roll soundtrack while asking the heavy questions of identity and gender which society at large was asking after the explosive excess of the 1960s. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michele Breton, Ann Sidney

Director: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
Screenwriter: Donald Cammell
Producer: Sanford Lieberson
Composer: Jack Nitzsche

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 13, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Amaray Case
  • Widescreen - 1.77

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 - English
  • Subtitles - English - Optional
  • Closed Captioned - English - Optional

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08/16/07
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3/5

the film reeks of Sixties avant garde style in an engaging sort of way and still comes across as a hip exploration of the kind of life us normal people can never have.

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06/15/07
Douglas Pratt
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We were always building monuments to our power and we always will be--performance is just one avenue to that same old immortality.

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04/26/07
Walter Chaw
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3.5/5

The last half of the film is sheer nonsense, and less interesting nonsense than that which preceded it

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02/27/07
Chris Barsanti
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02/13/07
Rumsey Taylor
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7/10

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Performance has it all.

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02/11/07
John J. Puccio
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04/01/06
Empire Magazine
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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Time Out
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4/5

Meaty, dark and weird.

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12/12/05
Cole Smithey
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4/5

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06/13/05
Emanuel Levy
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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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05/11/04
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09/27/03
Rich Cline
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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08/22/03
Walter Chaw
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4/5

Strange, almost hallucinatory film.

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08/14/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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05/24/03
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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Clearly stands as one of the giant steps in freeing English-language film from the restrictions of Hollywood's standard narrative demands.

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03/21/02
Andy Klein
New Times
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Very much a product of the late '60s and early '70s.

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09/07/01
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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