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Anita Pallenberg’s PERFORMANCE



Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger in Performance by Donald Cammell

Via the [London] Independent:

Chris Sullivan's "Performance: Anita Pallenberg talks about the notorious Sixties film"

"'But I'd been around a lot before I met any of the Rolling Stones,' says [Anita] Pallenberg, in her beautiful, wood-panelled, apartment overlooking Chelsea Embankment. 'I was in Rome in 1960 just as La Dolce Vita was happening and met [Federico] Fellini, Alberto Moravia, [Luchino] Visconti and [Pier Paolo] Pasolini. Then I went to model in New York in 1963 and hung out with Andy Warhol and all the Pop artists, and met the Beat poets. And then I went to Paris.' On a modelling assignment in the French capital, Pallenberg secured a part in director Volker Schlöndorff's new film, A Degree of Murder.There she met Donald Cammell, the writer and director of Performance."

"The film, which is released this week for the first time in the UK on DVD, is the tale of Chas (James Fox), a sadistic, sharp-suited London gangland enforcer who, by killing one of his own, falls foul of the boss Harry Flowers (Johnny Shannon) and hides out in the home of the reclusive rock star Turner (Mick Jagger). And as Chas is sucked into Turner's world of Eastern mysticism and Western debauchery, he is plied with hallucinogenic mushrooms, accepts the advances of Turner and his sexually insatiable inamoratas – the stunning Pherber (Anita Pallenberg) and the androgynous Lucy (Michèle Breton) — and loses the plot."

 

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