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“The biggest challenge was to make a movie about someone who is not likeable and hope the audience will still somehow connect with them.” “I never tried to make her likeable in the movie – I didn’t want to justify her, I didn’t want to try and find something she was not,” the Italian writer/director tells me down a phone line from New York. Is it a revisionist take on the former Warhol muse’s life? A little, but Nicchiarelli mostly avoids prettifying what was, at times, an ugly existence. She sets out to rehabilitate Nico as an artist, a woman and a mother and – helped in no small part by Trine Dyrholm’s convincing turn as the titular character – succeeds admirably. Making such a divisive figure worthy of an audience’s time is a tough job for any filmmaker, but somehow Nicchiarelli manages to do just that in her sad, elegiac, warts-and-all retelling of the final two years of the singer’s life. Musically, she’d drifted into obscurity long before her death at the age of 49. But she was also a notoriously difficult woman a committed heroin addict, alleged racist and anti-Semite, who has even been accused of getting her vulnerable son, Ari, hooked on the same drug that took such a toll on her own health.

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Yes, Nico had a fascinating life full of stratospheric highs, crashing lows and melodrama by the bucketload. That is one of the reasons why the film’s title is Nico, 1988 – history participating in this woman’s life.”įorged by war and division, the former Velvet Underground chanteuse certainly makes for a challenging biopic subject – perhaps not Ty Cobb or Jeffrey Dahmer challenging, but far from easy nonetheless. “I also find it touching that she died a year before the end of the Cold War and wasn’t able to witness her people reunited. She lived the shame of being German and what the Nazis did.

“She lost her dad at war and grew up in Nazi Germany. “Nico was shaped very much by the way history impacted her personal life,” Susanna Nicchiarelli says of the late singer, actress and model, whose final years she depicts in the biopic Nico, 1988.