Trine Dyrholm as Christa Päffgen in "Nico, 1988." (Courtesy Magnolia Pictures) “I only did three songs with them,” sighs an exasperated Christa Päffgen during one of the many frustrating ...

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

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 ...

“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 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.

Nico, 1988 will pick up in 1987, with Nico strung out on heroin during a solo European tour accompanied by her son Ari (she always claimed Ari was the son of French actor Alain Delon, ...

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 ...

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” wisely sidesteps maudlin tragic-final-days tropes, though there were plenty of those in real life. Instead, Nicchiarelli’s compassionate take focuses on Päffgen’s struggle to ...

“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 ...

Italian director Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Nico 1988, a biopic about Velvet Underground lead singer Christa Paffgen, better known as Nico, is set to open the Venice Film Festival’s Horizon ...

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, drugs and ...