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From the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival

Performance

 I loved this 1971, English movie, starring Mick Jagger. It was a WB production, never finished and never released, mostly due to its radically experimental story line and technically spectacular achievements of its time. Five to six years after the film was shot it was re-cut and shown in the late 70’s at midnight screenings. The copies were gritty. The film was cleaned up for the Toronto film festival so we could see a much better copy than can be seen on video.

One of the best lines in the movie was said to Mick, “You’re a comical little geezer who will look funny when he is fifty.” The audience cracked up and you realize just how young Mick was then.

Performance quite possibly contains one of the first music videos featuring Mick Jagger, 15 years before MTV came to TV.

In the movie, the London mobsters sexual preferences are a little questionable, whilst Mick plays the whimsical landlord, engaged is menage-a-trois with his two women and trying to find who he is. Two people from opposite worlds collide and merge. There are obscure elements and time is dislocated.

A great movie for its time and a classic which can be watched over again, for years to come.

~Sheila, September 2000

I didn’t care for this movie at all. I had a difficult time following the beginning. The scenes in Mick’s house were better, but I wouldn’t waste my time watching it again. I do have to say that I have never thought of Mick Jagger as an atractive person. In Performance there are times when he is absolutely beautiful.

If you are a huge Mick Jagger fan - I suppose you should try to see this somewhere. Otherwise I really don’t see much point.

~Trixie, September 2000

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