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Performance

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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.
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March 25, 2013

This hallucinogenic deconstruction of identity writhes with sex, substances, ultraviolence and good ol' rock'n'roll.
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March 25, 2013

Rapture and boredom both seem valid responses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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March 25, 2013

Pop stars continue to have bad luck in films.
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March 25, 2013

Visually dazzling, finely acted investigation into such diverse matters as identity, sexuality, violence, power, and underground culture in late 1960s London.
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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.
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March 25, 2013

It put Roeg's powerful cinematic style on the cultural map for the first time.
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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.
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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.
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