The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jagger’s most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural original-UK-version soundtrack

Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley

Influence and Controversy: Making “Performance” (2007)

New visual essay about David Litvinoff, the film’s dialogue coach and technical adviser

Interviews with the actors

Program on the overdubbing done for the U.S. version of the film

Memo from Turner, featuring on-set footage

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by film critic Ryan Gilbey and a 1995 article by scholar Peter Wollen