Model, actress, singer, muse. Nico’s life is a tale of an uncompromising artist who found contentment in her work only after losing the majority of her fans. Her story, although an extreme case, relates a truth about the difficulties faced by many women, including artists and mothers, on their journey to true maturity.
The story of the legendary singer, model, Warhol muse, and icon of (not only) the 1960s plays out between Paris, Prague, Nuremberg, and Manchester. Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli decided to focus on a concrete period of her life – her last two years, which she spent touring Europe during the 1980s. The film is not your standard biopic, but still it tries to uncover the real woman hidden behind the media image of Nico and her status as an icon. It is a story of the rebirth of an artist, mother, and woman, a story narrated with savvy, irony, and without dramatic sentimentalism – the way she would have served it up herself.
Nikola Paggio
93 min / Color, DCP
Director Susanna Nicchiarelli
/ Screenplay Susanna Nicchiarelli
/ Dir. of Photography Crystel Fouriner
/ Music Gatto Ciliegia Contro il Grande Freddo
/ Editor Stefano Cravero
/ Art Director Igor Gabriel, Alessandro Vannucci
/ Producer Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa, Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville
/ Production Vivo Film, Rai Cinema, Tarantula
/ Coproduction Voo, Be Tv
/ Cast Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca
/ Sales Celluloid Dreams
/ Contact Pascale Ramonda
/ Distributor Asociace českých filmových klubů
Susanna Nicchiarelli (b. 1975, Rome). Selected filmography: Cosmonaut (Cosmonauta, 2009), Discovery at Dawn (La scoperta dell’alba, 2012), Nico, 1988 (2017)
Celluloid Dreams
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France
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Asociace českých filmových klubů
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Czech Republic
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Jan Jílek
Distributor, Festival Organizer
Marta Donzelli
Producer
Gregorio Paonessa
Producer
Trine Dyrholm
Markéta Zatloukalová
Cinema Representative
Radana Korená
Distributor, Festival Organizer
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