Photograph courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Nico, 1988
Susanna Nicchiarelli
Orizzonti Competition
Nico,
1988, is written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli staring Trine Dyrholm as Nico and with John Gordon
Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek, Thomas Trabacchi, Karina Fernandez,
Calvin Demba. Set between Paris,
Prague, Nuremberg, Manchester, the Polish
countryside and the Roman
seaside, Nico, 1988 is a road-movie dedicated to the last years of Christa Paffgen, known by her stage
name Nico. One of Warhol’s muses, the singer of the Velvet Underground and a woman of
legendary beauty, Nico lived a second life after the story known to all, when
she began her career as a solo artist. Her music is among the most
original of the Seventies and Eighties, and has influenced much of the musical
production that followed. The "priestess
of darkness", as she was called, found her true calling after age
forty, when she shook off the weight of her beauty and rebuilt her relationship
with her only forgotten son. Nico,
1988 is the story of Nico's
last tour with the band that accompanied her around Europe in the Eighties.
It is the story of a rebirth, an artist, a mother, the woman beyond the icon.
Photograph courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
“This is the story of Nico after Nico.”
Susanna Nicchiarelli
director
Contessanally
– Dramatic beautiful Nico played brilliantly by
Trine
Dryholm – 7/10
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