From: I. Zelnik
Category: Other
Date: 6/21/99
Time: 8:35:57 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.97
DANNY PEARY ON *PERFORMANCE*: "Often a movie will leave a viewer with a bitter aftertaste, but *Performance* makes you feel from frame one that someone is resting his dirtiest finger in the back of your throat. For 106 minutes, directors Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg bombard you with brutal images---a forced head-shaving that resembles an amputation, a whipping, a beating, a bullet entering a skull---and you feel like gagging, as if somehow you have become Malcolm McDowell strapped to a movie seat in *A Clockwork Orange*, being forced to watch violent images that consequently will nauseate you."