Performance
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.
7 April 1927, Birmingham, England, UK
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
29 September 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
4 October 1943, London, England, UK
29 July 1932, Lambeth, South London, England, UK
May 7, 1913 in Marylebone, London, England, UK
14 July 1931, Stepney, London, England, UK
26 December 1944, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
15 April 1932, London, England, UK
19 May 1939, London, England, UK
25 January 1944, Rome, Lazio, Italy
7 April 1920, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
7 December 1937, Manchester, England, UK
May 4, 1922 in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, UK
1944, Poole, Dorset, England, UK
October1941, Forest Gate, London, England, UK
17 August 1939, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
March 6, 1911 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK
1912, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
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.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.March 25, 2013
It put Roeg's powerful cinematic style on the cultural map for the first time.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.March 25, 2013
Pop stars continue to have bad luck in films.March 25, 2013
Rapture and boredom both seem valid responses.March 25, 2013
This hallucinogenic deconstruction of identity writhes with sex, substances, ultraviolence and good ol' rock'n'roll.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.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.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.