Performance details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michelle Breton, James Fox |
| Directors: | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Name | Discs | |
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Performance |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 41 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 05 Mar 2006 |
| Main languages: | English |
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By a customer from Shropshire , 22 Jan 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
A 1960s netherworld of gangsters, sado-masochism and a reclusive rockstar may seem initially exciting through its description alone. However, this movie is an intelligent and compelling exploration of identity and reality. James Fox is a chilling East End thug yet his machismo falls away as he hides away from criminal activites in the bohemian home in Notting Hill Gate under a false identity. He explores drugs, sex and perception in a fatalistic meeting with Turner (Mick Jagger). The ending is pivotal ... and takes a while to fathom. Absolutely one of my favourite movies of all time. And the soundtrack is inspired ... Listen to Memo From Turner and the Ry Cooder slide guitar. Watch it!- Was this review helpful to you?
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(29)What Performance ???
By expectedmore (25 reviews) , 10 Jan 2013Paint performs better. Paul Jones could not act for toffee [ obviously he did it for the money then ??] Even though its got swinging 60's theme , it is totally flat , like the directing , the dialogue and what was passing for 'acting'. SORRY waste of celluloid- Was this review helpful to you?
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Dreadful rubbish
By maynardkeynes (3 reviews) from Shifnal , 23 Dec 2012Dreadful self indulgent twaddle. I am surprised we stayed awake till the end. The worst movie I have ever seen- Was this review helpful to you?
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You had to be there at the time, maaan.
By IamOwenHargreaves (9 reviews) , 03 Jun 2012Depending on your disposition, this is either a ground-breaking, spirit-of-the-times, zeitgeist-capturing and Very Important document of swinging sixties London, or an extremely self-indulgent pile of tosh.
The gritty first half, focusing on James Fox as saarf London gangster is actually quite good. As for the more experimental second half, see above.
Fox is really good, Jagger really wants us to take him seriously and as for Pallenberg, she allows us a glimpse of the care-free, work-free lifestyle available to the most beautiful amongst us (and not us lesser mortals!).- Was this review helpful to you?
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psychedelic cinema
By Andrejuno (1 review) , 27 Apr 2012The film 'performance' is a hidden gem. Its clever merges two opposing genre's of the period; that being very macho gangster style thrillers (Get Carter, James Bond) with the more hippy, experimental phase in cinema that was becoming the iconic vision of the 70's (The Holy Mountain, El Topo) - the movie takes the viewer on a journey into a world where they perhaps hadnt ever discovered or never attempted to discover; as the lead character himself finds out - hard edged gangster; exposed to the psychedelic, feminine madness of a opium den in Notting hill, as he tries to escape the police for murder. He unexpectedly goes on a journey of self discovery, with a fabulous performance from Mick Jagger. This movie really does touch on a period of time which is really under represented in cinema. Excellent film.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Avoid it!
By a customer , 10 Feb 2012With a plot thinner than a tarts nickers and appalling acting, particularly by Jagger, you should at all attempts avoid watching this film- Was this review helpful to you?
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