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LOS ANGELES : At its peak in 1960, the German singer Nico was "the femme fatale of Lou Reed", a glamorous superstar whose name was plastered on one of the most influential records of all time.
But his mixing days with Andy Warhol and the other American rockers The Velvet Underground are far behind the forty drugs we meet in the next feature film by Susanna Nicchiarelli " Nico, 1988 ".
The singer, embodied in a perfect performance by Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, who has already participated in Eurovision, is addicted to heroin and has been washed, but she is stubbornly satisfied to have remained true to herself
. a film not so much about Nico's fugacity with global celebrity as about the panache with which she managed the frustration of not being able to leave behind
"The Velvet Underground and Nico", the collaboration from 1967 on which she sang the lead on only three songs, ranked up to 13 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 500 albums of all time.
He was seen as the ancestor of much of the alternative rock that followed in the 1970s – and the album and associated tours were pretty much the only things that have interested the music press about Nico.
Nicchiarelli, a fan of Nico's lesser-known late music, became intrigued by the singer after listening to his dry and terse interview responses about his supposed apogee.
"She did things a lot more interesting after, as a solo artist and I found it very funny how she treated reporters and how she pulled out all the myths of 1960s, "said Nicchiarelli AFP .
Fighting the Demons ]
" My favorite answer, which I put in the first interview in the movie, is when they say, "It must have been the best time of your life." And she said: "Well, we took a lot of LSD." That has fascinated me and made me love him a lot. "" Nico, 1988 "is a poignant and sometimes hilarious chronicle of the last tour of the artist in Europe before his death from a heart attack on the L & # 39; Mediterranean island of Ibiza in the summer of this year
Leading a lonely existence in Manchester, north of England, his career and his personal life are on the ropes, and a new director (John Gordon Sinclair) convinces her to hit the road.
Approaching 50 years and struggling with her demons, she is distracted by the endless quest to mark another blow and longs to rebuild a relationship with the son from whom she lost custody (Sandor Funtek)
Her voice falters as she hangs out on stage, her erratic behavior and her unguarded tone, while her legs are covered with marks of stinging. Needles and bruises unsightly.
Nico – Christa Paffgen at her friends – suffered from poverty and hunger in West Berlin and shared the national sense of shame that accompanied defeat in the Second World War, even though it was only seven years old
Her father had been a German soldier, but whenever she met Jews in adulthood, she claimed to have been a brave resistance fighter.
Glories of the Past
"This was not true and I find it very touching, the way she invented this story, which seems interesting to me, is that she died a year before the end of the cold war, "said Nicchiarelli.
" She has not even had time to see the end, she is not sure. " I did not see his country gathered at the end of the Cold War and I liked the idea of telling this part of his life, the finale. Part of his life because I think it was the best part of his life. "
Nicchiarelli's thesis is that even to this day, the singer is regularly made the injustice of being mentioned especially in association with the" famous men that she has slept. with "
Warhol, an important figure in the pop art movement, said that Nico" has become a big junkie and has disappeared, "and Nicchiarelli's third feature film is nothing but a 93-minute rebuttal From this notion, successes were well behind her in her later years, the filmmaker sees her as the opposite of the faded star deluding herself in past glories, lamenting the vanished beauty.
gave the opportunity to turn around Nico's clichés – his life in the last part and then the relationship with his son and his relationship with history, his European identity, his German identity, "said Nichiarelli ] AFP .
"All of these were much more interesting to me than the things they usually care about in a biopic – be famous or not, succeed or not – which did not seem to be the major interest in the life of Nico ".
" Nico, 1988 " is being rolled out in some American theaters during the month of August. – AFP
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