'Performance' with 'The Blood of a Poet'
Thu 1 Feb 2018
Performance
(1970, UK, Cert. 18)
Dirs: Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell. With James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michele Breton, Anthony Valentine
A gangster hides out in the bohemian home of a reclusive rock star in this British classic. The sex, drugs and violence caused panic at Warner Bros, who re-edited the film before its eventual release in 1970.
Duration 105 minutes
The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un Poète)
(1932, France, Cert. PG)
Dir: Jean Cocteau. With Elizabeth Lee Miller & Enrique Rivero
Surreal and dreamlike, Jean Cocteau’s first film begins with an artist in his studio startled to find a mouth he has painted beginning to move. A personal, poetic, symbolic fantasy.
Duration 55 minutes
In French with English subtitles
