It was short. Just two movies including the surreal Performance and as the Australian renegade Ned Kelly. The Rolling Stones were set to record a soundtrack for Performance, which co-starred the breath-takingly beautiful Anita Pallenberg, who was involved with guitarist Keith Richards.
Rumors flew that Jagger and Pallenberg were actually having sex during their love scenes. Richards, upon hearing the rumors, decided to sit in his car outside of the studio during filming. No, that doesn't seem completely insane.
Otherwise, it's really easy to see the influence this film, directed by Donald Cammell, on modern filmmakers, most notably fellow Brit Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino. The stylistic and plot similarities to Ritchie's film Snatch is almost eerie as there is characters akin to Turkish, Bricktop, Mickey, Cousin Avi and Bullet-Tooth Tony.
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