Performance.
Presented by SFIFF and Sky Cinemas
Showing September 3 at 6:30pm
R • 1h 46m
A film by Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg
With Mick Jagger, James Fox, Anita Pallenberg
About the film
A film about madness and sanity - about fantasy and reality - about sensuality, life and death - vice and versa.
A rare and brilliant film that captures the world of rock n' roll's hedonistic, psychedelic era, Performance has become a cult and cultural phenomenon. Featuring Mick Jagger's best performance in a film and James Fox setting the tone for British gangsters and both Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie's later work in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (among others), Performance is both stunning and remarkable in its creative reach.
The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.
This is a unique opportunity to see this cult masterpiece on the big screen with big sound.
