Performance (1970)
High gloss acid colours on an empty vessel.
5 June 2004
Warning: Spoilers
From the synopsis that the local art house cinema provided, I was expecting this to be an edgy, intense psychodrama. Quite what it might have been back in 1968 is something else, watching it today it appears tedious, overdone, occasionally unintentionally hilarious and generally downright silly. In fact it bored me so much that I considered walking out.

SPOILERS

Much is made of the dynamic between Jagger and Fox's characters. I don't know why, all that seemed to happen was that Jagger's friend slips Fox a hallucinogenic mushroom and then they dress him up, make him up and turn him into a high 60s hip dude. The clever camera work and editing that supports this really does look painfully naive from a modern perspective, and there's no other plotlines of any merit to carry all of this along.
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