Saturday, August 16, 2014

PERFORMANCE (1970, GREAT BRITAIN)


Sex! Drugs! and Rock and Roll!
or If You Remember the 60's You Weren't Really There Week
(Post 6 of 7)

Plot synopsis: Mob enforcer Chas runs afoul of his bosses and takes refuge in a basement room of an ex-rock n' roll singer named Turner.

It's a 60's kind of quote: What a freak show!...I tell you, it's terrible...It's a right pisshole...long hair...beatniks...druggers...free love...foreigners...you name it!

Iconic 60's shot: The final shot of Chas being driven away. Or is it Chas?

Sex: Healthy doses of S and M, androgyny, a menage a trois and quick cuts of Rolling Stone girlfriend Anita Pallenberg in various states of undress.

Drugs: Chas gets the mushroom treatment from Turner and his girlfriend and changes his perspective of life

Rock and Roll: Musical credits include Jack Nitzsche, Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Buffy Ste. Marie, Civil Rights rappers The Last Poets and Rolling Stone front man Mick Jagger as Turner.






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