'Performance? I still don't fully understand it' – behind the scenes photos from the cult classic

"Yet in the 50 years since it was finished (it took a couple of years to see the light of day, so horrified were Warner Bros with the result), it has become the definition of a cult classic. Two films in one, it begins as a British gangster movie with hallmarks that would go on to define the genre. Halfway through, Jagger turns up as the washed-up rockstar Turner living in a menage a trois with Anita Pallenberg (Pherber) and Michèle Breton (Lucy). The film transforms itself into a hallucinatory end-of-the-60s trip that, with its exploration of identity and sexual fluidity, seems incredibly prescient several decades on."

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