Nico was born Christa Päffgen, and in the film just about everyone calls her Christa, making you realize that Nico is a character she’s still playing but no longer believes in. “Nico, 1988 ...

She also opens up about what made Trine Dyrholm the perfect Nico, even though she looks nothing like the singer ...

Thomas Trabacchi and Trine Dyrholm in "Nico, 1988." (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) One club owner describes her as "a piece of history," but it’s a history Christa has long ago moved beyond.

For Nicchiarelli, Nico, 1988 is a corrective to the prevailing narrative of Nico’s fade into obscurity. “It was a way of turning around the cliché of being famous and then declining,” she said.

Nico, 1988 plays like the impressionistic indie feature you might expect it to be, given its esoteric subject matter, but its multi-faceted and realistic portrayal of the singer holds your attention.

If you know the name Nico at all, it’s from a brief moment in time in the 1960s when she collaborated with Lou Reed on the iconic “The Velvet Underground & Nico” album and was anointed by ...

“I’ll be your mirror,” intoned Nico in 1966, singing one of the many tunes given her by a lover. In retrospect, the line neatly captures the model-actress-singer’s ’60s persona: a thin, icily ...

It’s a defiant stance made clear at the onset of “Nico, 1988,” an offbeat, behind-the-music biopic chronicling the final two years of Päffgen’s troubled relationships with fame, ...

“Nico, 1988” starts two years earlier than that date, with the heroin-using singer, her iconic blond hair now dyed black, enjoying living in the British city of Manchester because, ...

"Nico, 1988," about the late German chanteuse who sang with the Velvet Underground, will open the Venice Film Festival's Horizons section. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV Plus Icon What To Watch ...

Nico, 1988 includes a few clips of low-def archival film from the '60s, glimpses of the young woman's glamorous persona and famous associates. Aside from those inserts, ...