A 1970 British film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg in which a violent gangster hides in a reclusive rock star's London house and undergoes a dissolution of identity.
Pioneered the collision of British crime cinema with avant-garde editing and rock-era counterculture, creating a template for identity-disruption narratives that influenced Nolan and many others.
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