Performance (1970)
Country: GB
Technical: col 105m
Director: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Synopsis:
A gangster holes up with a pop star in a Laondon house, and gradually their identities merge.
Review:
Like a male version of Bergman's Persona, this highly allusive film has undeniable technique and pioneered a thematic rather than a narrative-based use of montage which Roeg was to make the hallmark of his style. Cammell, who had considerably more authorial input, loaded the film with references to contemporary writers, art and music, and re-edited the film when it previewed disastrously in Los Angeles, actually introducing some of the flash editing we see at the beginning for example. Like it or loathe it, it undoubtedly sets out to say something about the Sixties worlds of crime and pop music. What, is less clear, though the title says a lot.
Country: GB
Technical: col 105m
Director: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Synopsis:
A gangster holes up with a pop star in a Laondon house, and gradually their identities merge.
Review:
Like a male version of Bergman's Persona, this highly allusive film has undeniable technique and pioneered a thematic rather than a narrative-based use of montage which Roeg was to make the hallmark of his style. Cammell, who had considerably more authorial input, loaded the film with references to contemporary writers, art and music, and re-edited the film when it previewed disastrously in Los Angeles, actually introducing some of the flash editing we see at the beginning for example. Like it or loathe it, it undoubtedly sets out to say something about the Sixties worlds of crime and pop music. What, is less clear, though the title says a lot.
Country: GB
Technical: col 105m
Director: Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Synopsis:
A gangster holes up with a pop star in a Laondon house, and gradually their identities merge.
Review:
Like a male version of Bergman's Persona, this highly allusive film has undeniable technique and pioneered a thematic rather than a narrative-based use of montage which Roeg was to make the hallmark of his style. Cammell, who had considerably more authorial input, loaded the film with references to contemporary writers, art and music, and re-edited the film when it previewed disastrously in Los Angeles, actually introducing some of the flash editing we see at the beginning for example. Like it or loathe it, it undoubtedly sets out to say something about the Sixties worlds of crime and pop music. What, is less clear, though the title says a lot.