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 Mick Jagger stars in
PERFORMANCE
Original uncut theatrical version debuts on DVD 5th. March 2007 from Warner
Home Video.
See them all in a film about fantasy. And reality. Vice. And versa.
Full of the fashions, music and faces of '68, this is still as fresh and
disturbing now as it ever was, and there are moments....that remain unmatchably
astonishing.
**** EMPIRE
PERFORMANCE makes its long awaited arrival onto DVD for the first time on
March 5th. 2007.
This psycedelic British classic explores the dangerous world of an East End
gangster played by James Fox and the hedonism of a drug-fuelled rock star played
by an unforgetable Mick Jagger.
PERFORMANCE marked the directorial debut of Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now, The
Man Who Fell To Earth) and co-director Donald Dammell (Demon Seed), who also
wrote the experimental screenplay - citing Francis Bacon, Nietzsche and Jorge
Borges as inspiration. The film owes its distinct visual style and cult status
to the successful collaboration between these two filmmakers.
Made in 1968 and released in 1970, PERFORMANCE was extremely controversial in
its day due to explicit scenes of sex, violence and drug taking. So many myths
surround the film that it has become a modern movie legend.
There are tales of Keith Richards keeping a jealous eye over girlfriend Anita
Pallenberg while she filmed sec scenes with bandmate Jagger, lab technicians so
shocked at the sex scenes they refused to develop the film and people vomitting
during screenings. Although Roeg has enjoyed a long and critically acclaimed
career and cointinues to make films, Donald Cammell tragically commited suicide
in 1996.
Set in swinging sixties London, James Fox plays Chas Dewlin, a gangster with
a talent for violence and intimidation, who in underworld terms, is a "performer".
Mick Jagger is Turner, a reclusive rock superstar whome home becomes a hideout
for Chas. In the spellbinder of illusion and realitym decadence and decay their
worlds collide - and the impact is both exotic and explosive. The soundtrack
features music from Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, The Last Poets and
more.
Special features:
Release:
March 5th 2007, DVD Retail, Cert 18, 105 mins
Original Aspect Ratio - 1.77 Widescreen (16:9 Transfer), English: Mono 1:0
Publicity
Contact: Diana Privitera at Noble PR, United Kingdom
© Courtesy of Warner Home Video.
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