A brutal London mobster (James Fox), who takes too much pleasure in his work, seeks refuge from the angry Mob in the townhouse of a reclusive rock-and-roll singer (Mick Jagger), and discovers, there, new dimensions of depravity. The notions, swimming throughout, of perverse lifestyles and perverse interior decoration are mushily romantic; and the narrative structure is kaleidoscopically messy. Even with the mess it makes, the editing style is probably not as liberated from normal narrative logic as it would like to be. Either it takes a perfectly linear event and senselessly scrambles it; or it takes two seemingly unrelated events and makes a perfectly logical, legible, and simple-minded connection between them. Still, the flashy editing style and the sleazy individual images have considerable power to dazzle, to tease, to glut. Cinematographer Nicolas Roeg codirected with screenwriter Donald Cammell. (1969) — Duncan Shepherd
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