Performance (1970, UK)

Chas is dressed up This is a seriously artistic gangster film, set very evocatively and convincingly in London. A crook, Chas, played by James Fox, is on the run from other crooks and eventually goes to ground in a flat in the house of Mick Jagger's character, Turner, and his two girlfriends. Things are very bohemian, and Chas is dressed by the girls as part of a mind game that eliminates his own identity.

But the film is very hard work to follow, with a lot of clever, but confusing, cutting and allegories. It is said that MGM were horrified when they got the completed work that they had commissioned, having expected that Jagger's role in the film would guarantee a sort of Beatles fun musical. If that's true, they were very, very far off the mark.

HF October 2002


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