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2003 Festival programme.
Performance
Friday 14th February 6:15 PM - Theatre By The Lake
Director:Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
Cert:18 Year: 1970 Length:105mins
Country:UK Language:English
James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton.
The festival kicks off with Nic Roeg's directorial debut, a brimful collection of ideas about power, persuasion and performance ("The only achievement that makes it, makes it all the way is madness") Opening as a gangster thriller, the film juggles visual and verbal imagery and develops into a complex blurring of the divide between reality and fantasy.
Critics
“Roeg's debut is a virtuoso juggling act”
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