Performance

Performance follows Chas, a brutal London gangster who goes on the run after killing the wrong man and hides in the decadent home of faded rock star Turner, played by Mick Jagger. As the two men interact alongside Turner's free-spirited companions, their identities begin to dangerously merge through psychedelic experiences and psychological games. The film is a bold, fragmented exploration of identity, sexuality, and violence that remains one of British cinema's most transgressive and influential works.

• Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg reportedly had a real affair during filming.
• Warner Bros. executives were so shocked they delayed release by two years.
• James Fox quit acting for a decade after making this film.
• The film was co-directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg.
• Keith Richards was furious about Jagger and Pallenberg's on-set relationship.

• The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
• Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
• I've got a good master. Turner. He's a juggler, a con man, an old sophisticate.
• I like that. A man who thinks he can do without the world.
• Your past is your future, baby.