Performance

Name: Performance
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Crime, Music
Released: May 11, 2001
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 69
Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger

2001

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 11, 2001 | X

Starring: James Fox, Mick Jagger

Summary: In this re-release of the 1970 psychological drama, a murderer on the run takes refuge with an outcast rock star.

Director: Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Crime, Music

Rating: X

Runtime: 105 min

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David Sterritt

Put Roeg's powerful cinematic style on the cultural map. Read full review

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Fuelled by Cammell's whacked-out erudition and lensed with tyro brilliance by Roeg, this hallucinogenic deconstruction of identity writhes with sex, substances, ultraviolence and good ol' rock'n'roll. Read full review

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Jonathan Crocker

Uncorked in 1970, it's a shocking crime thriller, a time-capsule of Swinging 60s London and a fizzy intellectual headtrip all whisked into one astonishing film. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Philip French

It's an exhilarating commentary on Swinging London in its dying days and the worlds of popular music and crime, with the disturbing paintings of Francis Bacon and the fascinating fictions of Jorge Luis Borges as influences. [11 Mar 2007, p.14]

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

There's some great Pinteresque dialogue, and the murky gloom is illuminated with flashes of genius. [07 May 2004, p.15]

Roger Ebert

Performance is a bizarre, disconnected attempt to link the inhabitants of two kinds of London underworlds: pop stars and gangsters. It isn’t altogether successful, largely because it tries too hard and doesn’t pace itself to let its effects sink in. Read full review

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Co-director Nicolas Roeg’s lensing is tricky, the characters gamey, the dialog dull, performances flat, impact none. Read full review

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RobertBrogan

Oct 6, 2015

Performance is a great film for those that want to feel verve and are willing to pay the cost of nonconformity. The dialogue has got liveness and the music has soul; the attitude is rock-and-roll ("I am alive and well. You push the buttons.") The pacing is good, and goes back-and-forth withPerformance is a great film for those that want to feel verve and are willing to pay the cost of nonconformity. The dialogue has got liveness and the music has soul; the attitude is rock-and-roll ("I am alive and well. You push the buttons.") The pacing is good, and goes back-and-forth with tension and play throughout, right up to a memorable climax. This is an arty kind of film, but is also challenging and edgy, with a fair amount of violence, sex, and drugs (mostly violence) in its look at what man is spiritually. The performances of Mick Jagger and Jamie Fox are very complementary, it has a naturally artificial feeling as they give each other a hard time and secretly love it (the bit where they are in bed together is pretty damn funny). This is the interesting 60s, where the setting is old but the vibe is fresh and unrestrained and un-50s.… Expand

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AlexOldOne

Nov 18, 2012

The film is not nearly as lyrical, sustained, eccentric, or sincerely romantic as it would like to be, although there's plenty to admire. Average at best but its not my type of film,

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