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Performance. With Mick Jagger. An overdone display of far out paraphernalia; it is packed with easy plays for sensationalism, but they are old. And except for Jagger in a Batman black skin suit, it is boring. Orson Welles...
...commitment has earned him a loyal coterie of actors and technicians who turn up repeatedly in his productions. "Any actor would do anything for him," asserts McDowell, who plays a character named Mick Travis in both If . . . and O Lucky Man! (The two Micks are not meant to be the same person; the name was repeated, says Anderson, "for old times' sake.") Continues McDowell: "The party scene in Lucky Man! was shot on Sunday-for free-because it was not in the budget. Lindsay asked if we would do it, and every single actor came in for nothing...
Even when Mick devotes his life to charity, he is confounded...
...Mick will not. "What's there to smile about?" he demands. Anderson smacks him on the head with a script, an ironic rendering of one of those moments of illumination in Zen. The corners of Mick's mouth twitch upward into the beginnings of a grin: he understands what there is to smile about...
Everything in the film could be considered a kind of flashback from this one moment. Mick reassesses his recent life with the new knowledge that the only way to deal with absurdity is to recognize it. Winning that insight, he may be again the lucky...