When Performance, was delivered to the studio (WB) and test screened, there weren't many people smiling.
After languishing, being re-cut, and finally being released in 1970, Donald Cammell and Nick Roeg's effort arrived as one of the few films concerning the UK drugs, sex and rock & roll theme also infused with more than enough transgendered storyline to keep it out of many neighborhood malls, today the film not only succeeds, but has stood the test of time.
The transfer looks fine on SD DVD.
It would have been a nice treat, per their availability to have had interview footage with Mr. Jagger and Mr. Fox, for the documentary, which would have rounded it out nicely.
Viewing Performance again leaves me with a single question.
With everyone else accounted for, whatever became of French actress Michele Breton, also seen in Godard's Weekend? Web searches lead nowhere.
Recommended.
RAH
After languishing, being re-cut, and finally being released in 1970, Donald Cammell and Nick Roeg's effort arrived as one of the few films concerning the UK drugs, sex and rock & roll theme also infused with more than enough transgendered storyline to keep it out of many neighborhood malls, today the film not only succeeds, but has stood the test of time.
The transfer looks fine on SD DVD.
It would have been a nice treat, per their availability to have had interview footage with Mr. Jagger and Mr. Fox, for the documentary, which would have rounded it out nicely.
Viewing Performance again leaves me with a single question.
With everyone else accounted for, whatever became of French actress Michele Breton, also seen in Godard's Weekend? Web searches lead nowhere.
Recommended.
RAH
