G.G. Passion

Passion is a 1966 British short drama film directed by David Bailey and starring Eric Swayne, Caroline Munro and Chrissie Shrimpton.

Passion is an ageing pop star living a lavish Swinging Sixties London lifestyle, surrounded by beautiful women and devoted fans.

Some might agree that pop stars should be done away with, but the film's tone is so uncertain (veering between comic speeded-up chases and rather disagreeable violence) that one never senses a point of view satiric or otherwise.

In some ways the film resembles a product of the New York school – which means that it equates agitated camerawork with style and essays a desperate kind of elegance (like the girls draped over G.G.

The result of a collaboration between several significant figures in the then London filmmaking scene, including scriptwriter Gérard Brach, cinematographer Stanley Long and co-producer Roman Polanski, G.G Passion remains a mystifyingly underseen mid-sixties treat.