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Performance
Description
Chas, a sadistic and violent London gangster needs a place to hide for some time as other cruel men are trying to kill him. The guest house owned by the mysterious used-to-be rock star Turner seems to be the perfect place.
Chas, a sadistic and violent London gangster needs a place to hide for some time as other cruel men are trying to kill him. The guest house owned by the mysterious used-to-be rock star Turner seems to be the perfect place.
Actors:
John Bindon,
Stanley Meadows,
Terry Duggan,
Jay Denyer,
Kenneth Colley,
John Caesar,
Leon Eagles
John Bindon
4 October 1943, London, England, UK
Stanley Meadows
14 July 1931, Stepney, London, England, UK
Terry Duggan
15 April 1932, London, England, UK
Jay Denyer
May 7, 1913 in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Kenneth Colley
7 December 1937, Manchester, England, UK
John Caesar
Leon Eagles
Director:
Nicolas Roeg ,
Donald Cammell
Nicolas Roeg
15 August 1928, London, England, UK
Donald Cammell
17 January 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Country:
United Kingdom
Keywords:
#Anita Pallenberg #Donald Cammell #James Fox #Mick Jagger #Nicolas Roeg #Performance #Sanford Lieberson
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July 23, 2015
With a pleasurably peculiar cast of James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance is one of the weirdest slices of Seventies London around, combining gangster violence and ritual humiliation with decaying rock-star glamour.
April 07, 2014
For all its hallucinatory excesses, however, Performance is a film of ideas, even if it's happier to let them swirl around than attempt to explain them.
August 19, 2010
Comes across as pretentious in spots but has not lost its '60s hallucinogenic suggestiveness. It haunts like the dream just out of reach of the rational concrete.
March 25, 2013
Visually dazzling, finely acted investigation into such diverse matters as identity, sexuality, violence, power, and underground culture in late 1960s London.
March 25, 2013
This hallucinogenic deconstruction of identity writhes with sex, substances, ultraviolence and good ol' rock'n'roll.
October 23, 2004
It isn't altogether successful, largely because it tries too hard and doesn't pace itself to let its effects sink in.
March 25, 2013
The movie is a facile enough pastiche of underground pyrotechnics and Euro-art pretensions, but far more evocative now is the fast, offhand repartee between the principals.
March 25, 2013
It put Roeg's powerful cinematic style on the cultural map for the first time.
March 25, 2013
Rapture and boredom both seem valid responses.
April 18, 2011
[VIDEO] "Performance" pioneered a slew of modern cinematic techniques adopted by such master filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, and Gaspar Noé.
February 09, 2006
Roeg's debut as a director is a virtuoso juggling act which manipulates its visual and verbal imagery so cunningly that the borderline between reality and fantasy is gradually eliminated.
March 25, 2013
Pop stars continue to have bad luck in films.

