Mike Brown on Performance

Book Description
Performance is the surreal seventies film starring Mick Jagger and James Fox. Entertainingly outrageous characters drift around a huge house in Notting Holl, with a heady concoction of love, drugs and gangsters. Made in 1970 and directed by Nicholas Roeg.



From the Publisher
"Bloomsbury's new Movie Guide series looks like being easily the best idea to have assaulted the cinema bookshelves. Exhaustive, affectionate, committed, intelligent, flip, provocative, and, above all, personal.... Having read them it's guaranteed that the next time you see either of these movies, something will have changed, and changed for good." --Uncut


About the Author
Mick Brown is a writer and freelance journalist. He has written Richard Branson, The Inside Story, American Heartbeat: Travels from Woodstock to San Jose by Song Title, which was short-listed for the Thomas Cook Best Travel Book in 1994, and most recently, The Spiritual Tourist. He lives in London.



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Nicholas Roeg�s Performance, starring Mick Jagger, is a feast for the mind and senses � a film that simultaneously explores the nature of identity, violence and creativity, sex and death, amorality, power, drugs, and rock and roll. Now Mick Brown explains why it may be one of the greatest British films of all time.


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