Permissive

Suzy (Maggie Stride) arrives in London with nowhere to stay and meets Fiona (Gay Singleton), a groupie who has settled into a relationship with Lee (Alan Gorrie), bassist and singer with the band Forever More. At first Suzy is just one of many girls who follow the groups and make themselves sexually available to musicians and their hangers-on. When the band goes on tour she is left behind. For some time she lives on the streets with Pogo (Robert Daubigny), a gentle hippie drifter who is eventually killed in a road accident. After the accident she meets Fiona again. She becomes accepted as part of Forever More’s entourage and develops the glamorous style and hard attitude of an experienced groupie.

When Suzy arrives in London to visit an old school friend, she is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the ‘groupie’. Fuelled by sex, drugs and jealousy, her new lifestyle fosters in her a cold, cynical instinct for survival. But tragedy is never far away. With its effective blend of gritty location work, brooding flash-forward devices, and a soundtrack by cult acid folk and prog rock legends Comus, Forever More – who also star – and Titus Groan, Permissive is a dark British counter-cultural artefact that’s shot through with grim authenticity. As a bonus, this release also includes Stanley Long’s ultra-rare Bread, a film which, whilst exploring the same cultural milieu as Permissive (and featuring its own bona fide cult British rock band, Juicy Lucy), takes a somewhat more lighthearted approach to its subject.

Lisatud 07.12.2021, 865 681 962b, YTS.MX

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