Review of Performance (1970) by Lee P — 13 Feb 2008

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted.".

This review of Performance (1970) was written by Lee P on 13 Feb 2008.

Performance has generally received positive reviews.

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 22 Jul 2015

With a pleasurably peculiar cast of James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance is one of the weirdest slices of Seventies London…

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By Alex W (1,471) on 11 Oct 2013

I grasped a basic plot but honestly I didn't know what the hell was going on for most of this movie…

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By Victor M (495) on 19 Mar 2015

Maybe my expectative about this film were too great; I couldn't find the story thread. Finally, the cast should be Mick Jagger AS HIMSELF…

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By Aj V (1,538) on 06 Dec 2010

A film with a badass first half and great editing, however the psychedelic second half doesn't fare as well and borders on boring art film…

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By Noah P (195) on 14 Feb 2013

Performance is disturbing and confusing- as the directors probably intended…

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By Romeo H (212) on 10 May 2011

Not so sure about this…

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By Andy C (1,868) on 27 Oct 2012

Gangsters and drugs and boobs and Mick Jagger…

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By Scott R (2,451) on 31 Oct 2017

Infuriating, incoherent, very badly acted in places - and yet, for the first half at least, there's a peculiar fascination in watching a perversely-cast…

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By Matt C (2,668) on 08 Mar 2012

One half of this is a very decent film...unfortunately as soon as Jagger arrives on screen (man he can't act) it then descends into utter hippy…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Stream on Demand (168) on 24 Nov 2018

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