document of the way identity directly results from sexual repression, and in retrospect, the difficulty of rebuilding the identity of the west after the hippie era brought it all tumbling down in order to shoot its collective load (or its uber-metaphorical bullet, in our protagonist's case). it holds performance - by extension, cinema - up as a cornerstone of this rebuilding process, for good or ill.

This picture has had a cult following for years, but I've never been very excited by it

The editing is very unique. the style is sometimes interesting and sometimes annoying.

Hard to say. I enjoyed the first half hour a lot, but once Jagger shows up the films becomes too chaotic to really makes heads or tails of what's happening. It's an awkward mess filled with some amazing photography that keeps you going with it. Some great moments, but a lot of bullshit to accompany it. The old sound mix also made it hard to follow the dialogue at times, but I won't hold it against the film itself, but it probably hurt my enjoyment some.

Brings back memories of the drug times and listening to Memo from Turner

Kind of strange, haphazardly edited (In a good way) and visually exciting.

Engaging editing and creatively staged imagery cannot make up for the silly gender-bending and cliched depressive artists/performers that populate this film.

I didn't understand anything, but I still enjoyed it.

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Stylish chaos

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Good flick and HEAVILY sampled by Big Audio Dynamite for their song "E=MC2"

Wierd and flawed, but it's still very enjoyable thanks to the intense performances and the film's visual style.

Too much a product of its time, it gets weighed down by hippie romanticism, tedious fiddling with gender roles, and pompous literary references. There was some stuff I liked, especially the bold editing, but even a lot of the best bits were borrowed from Persona and Blow-Up. Roeg never really gets me or pushes my buttons, even though I think he makes some very interesting choices. I've been trying to decide if either half of the movie would have worked better on its own, but I don't think so.

A sincere and as always alienated effort from Roeg. The film takes a wild turn from professional megalomaniac bullying to 60ies go with the flow drug induced life style. It was hard to survive the first half hour but it was visually interesting most of the time.

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It's all over the place and as free spirited as the sexuality depicted, and I love it. Turn off your mind and simply float along with the colorful imagery and the crazy editing.

18 Ocak 2009, ist. modern, 157:00, Robert Mitchum ve Cool'un Dogusu programi & wtf?? weird. ( zaman gecmek bilmedi! acikcasi mick jagger'in buyuk bir hayrani oldugumu soyleyemem. ama karizmatikmis herif, o ayri. )

Aggressively stylish, with some incredible shots and edits. But feels very dated and hollow much of the time; I can't say that I feel the need to see this again.

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