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...spouse's social habits prove totally incomprehensible to the affluent couple-and vice versa.) Granted this device is as old as time; still, it has served movies well, from such American Depression comedies as Frank Capra's It Happened One Night to such recent sophisticated Kitsch as the current Mick Jagger Performance...
...spouse's social habits prove totally incomprehensible to the affluent couple-and vice versa.) Granted this device is as old as time; still, it has served movies well, from such American Depression comedies as Frank Capra's It Happened One Night to such recent sophisticated kitsch as the current Mick Jagger Performance...
Performance casts Mick as a freaky rock singer who has given it all up and lives in a cavernous house in Notting Hill with two handmaidens, a little girl, some draperies, a few pastel pillows and a lot of dope. Into this heady atmosphere comes a hood on the lam (James Fox) who rents the downstairs room as a hideout. The hood corrupts the singer, the singer corrupts the hood, and the two handmaidens (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton) just hang around, giggling a lot and getting into bed and king-sized bathtubs with anyone available. The film, which pretends...
...Kelly is a Tony Richardson movie about a legendary Australian bandit, a kind of 19th century Robin Hood. In the title role, Mick sticks up banks and shoots a lot of policemen. But he pays for all that fun. As the hangman slips the inevitable noose around his neck, Jagger looks straight into the camera and says: "Such is life...
Jocelyn Herbert's production design creates a feeling of violent, boisterous squalor, and Gerry Fisher's camera work -like Nicolas Roeg's in Performance -is discreet but evocative. Of course, Mick gets to sing in both films. In Performance, he delivers a zesty composition of his own, called Memo from Turner, and in Ned Kelly, he gives us approximately 847 choruses of The Wild Colonial Boy. Jagger's best film role to date is still in Godard's One Plus One, where he can be seen doing what he does best: just singing...