The artist and singer Nico was regarded as a pop culture icon and was one of the first Supermodels. Before this life, she took refuge in drugs. The film “Nico, 1988” is dedicated to her last year of life.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Tribute to a pop icon
Supermodel, singer, Muse: Christa Päffgen alias Nico is regarded as a pop icon of the 1960s and 70s. The Film “Nico, 1988” appears to be your 30. The date of death. 18. July 1988 died Päffgen at the age of 49 years after a fall from your Bicycle to a ruptured aneurysm.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
In the role of decline
Trine Dyrholm, here in 2016, awarded as best actress for “The commune” with the Silver bear at the Berlinale, plays in the movie “Nico, 1988” the main role and the demise of the pop icon. The vocals took over the Dane himself, to Pathos, she renounced.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Glamour and gloom
Christa Päffgen (photo: Tryne Dryholm) came in 1938, in Cologne, to the world, as a teenager, she was discovered in Berlin. At 16, she went to work as a Model, to Paris, where she was to “Nico”. They wrestled with the reduction to Appearance, and should have taken its outward decay with excessive consumption of drugs later. Between Glamour and gloom, numerous liaisons Nicos way paved.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
The father of her child, is it?
As “the most beautiful man in the world” called Nico the French actor Alain Delon. In 1962, they brought in the age of 24, his son Ari to the world – Delon not acknowledged the paternity. Nico was in New York party a little on-the-go and with the child overwhelmed. Her sick mother took on Aris, marriage Delons mother took over the education – allegedly, after she had Ari kidnap.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Musical Start-Up
In 1964, Nico, in London, met Bob Dylan, who was working on his fourth Album, “Another Side”. Dylan supported you in your first vocal attempt and I gave her the Song “I’ll keep it with mine”, finally appeared in 1968, Nico’s first solo album.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
The New York Patron
In the early 1960s Nico in New York, met the artist Andy Warhol, who said later about you, you would have looked, as you would have been at the bow of a Viking ship across the Atlantic. Nico was a regular customer in his Factory, where artists and colorful Society met, to fertilize each other and to take drugs. Here Warhol, Nico was brought together with “The Velvet Underground”.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Lou Reed – one more affair Nicos
This is supposed to have happened against the will of the Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed. That did not stop him, however, to begin with the mysterious beauty of having an affair. In addition to the private pleasure of Reed and Nico were working on the first Album of his Band, the stay at the time, commercially unsuccessful, but later as a cornerstone of the experimental Rocks.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
The Banana Album
“The Velvet Underground & Nico” in 1967 was the first Album of the Band by Lou Reed and John Cale. Andy Warhol designed the Cover and produced the music. It is as the “banana album”, and sets the content with the consumer society, and drug addiction apart motifs that ran through the lives of Nico, whose involvement in the Band after the Album ended.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Force of self-destruction
Muse of X, friend of Y – although Nico’s Affairs were said to have with pretty much every well-known artist of New York’s High Society in the late 60s, she wanted to be as an independent Person. Your Image you escaped by self-destruction.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Tribute to a pop icon
Supermodel, singer, Muse: Christa Päffgen alias Nico is regarded as a pop icon of the 1960s and 70s. The Film “Nico, 1988” appears to be your 30. The date of death. 18. July 1988 died Päffgen at the age of 49 years after a fall from your Bicycle to a ruptured aneurysm.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
In the role of decline
Trine Dyrholm, here in 2016, awarded as best actress for “The commune” with the Silver bear at the Berlinale, plays in the movie “Nico, 1988” the main role and the demise of the pop icon. The vocals took over the Dane himself, to Pathos, she renounced.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Glamour and gloom
Christa Päffgen (photo: Tryne Dryholm) came in 1938, in Cologne, to the world, as a teenager, she was discovered in Berlin. At 16, she went to work as a Model, to Paris, where she was to “Nico”. They wrestled with the reduction to Appearance, and should have taken its outward decay with excessive consumption of drugs later. Between Glamour and gloom, numerous liaisons Nicos way paved.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
The father of her child, is it?
As “the most beautiful man in the world” called Nico the French actor Alain Delon. In 1962, they brought in the age of 24, his son Ari to the world – Delon not acknowledged the paternity. Nico was in New York party a little on-the-go and with the child overwhelmed. Her sick mother took on Aris, marriage Delons mother took over the education – allegedly, after she had Ari kidnap.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Musical Start-Up
In 1964, Nico, in London, met Bob Dylan, who was working on his fourth Album, “Another Side”. Dylan supported you in your first vocal attempt and I gave her the Song “I’ll keep it with mine”, finally appeared in 1968, Nico’s first solo album.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
The New York Patron
In the early 1960s Nico in New York, met the artist Andy Warhol, who said later about you, you would have looked, as you would have been at the bow of a Viking ship across the Atlantic. Nico was a regular customer in his Factory, where artists and colorful Society met, to fertilize each other and to take drugs. Here Warhol, Nico was brought together with “The Velvet Underground”.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Lou Reed – one more affair Nicos
This is supposed to have happened against the will of the Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed. That did not stop him, however, to begin with the mysterious beauty of having an affair. In addition to the private pleasure of Reed and Nico were working on the first Album of his Band, the stay at the time, commercially unsuccessful, but later as a cornerstone of the experimental Rocks.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
The Banana Album
“The Velvet Underground & Nico” in 1967 was the first Album of the Band by Lou Reed and John Cale. Andy Warhol designed the Cover and produced the music. It is as the “banana album”, and sets the content with the consumer society, and drug addiction apart motifs that ran through the lives of Nico, whose involvement in the Band after the Album ended.
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Nico, the Model and the priestess of darkness
Force of self-destruction
Muse of X, friend of Y – although Nico’s Affairs were said to have with pretty much every well-known artist of New York’s High Society in the late 60s, she wanted to be as an independent Person. Your Image you escaped by self-destruction.
Beauty, Supermodel, style icon: Christa Päffgen in 1938 born in Cologne and after the war, in Berlin, grew up, has managed at a young age to international fame. 17-she’s modeling in Paris for magazines, photographers give her the stage name Nico, she’s moving to New York, and in a world without constraints and limits to be immersed.
Nico as a Supermodel (1965)
The Biopic “Nico, 1988” return the shards of what remained at the end of the 1980s, from the glory of the previous decades left. The Film shows Nico in their last year of life, to be drawn from the drug and the effort, as an independent artist recognized. Because this is your subject: the emancipation, the Breaking out of the structures of the past, you seemed superficial, although limitless, in which you could move around, but it’s still just foreign.
Nico wants more than just to be beautiful
Nico is considered to be one of the first Supermodels of the fashion industry, and to sing with your way as a pioneer for Punk and Gothic. She has Affairs with numerous famous men, gets a son of the actor Alain Delon and, to the Muse of the New York artist Andy Warhol. In his “Factory”Studio, she also learns Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison and Lou Reed, hits, with which it is temporarily engaged.
She also works as an actress, which goes back to an appearance in Federico Fellini’s famous Film “La Dolce Vita”, in which Nico just plays itself. Is that what a self-determined person define: beauty?, she asks again and again.
Nico, 1972: The former Model turned to the Dark. Their Album “The End…” applies to the record company with the question: “Why commit suicide when you can buy this plate?”
Nico wants out of the world of the Rich and famous break out and finds an ally: Heroin. It helps her to remove herself from her Image as a Model and artist’s Muse, in appearance and in appearance. The physical decay is their right, even desirable. In a movie scene, the washed-up musician Nico sits very authentically played by the Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, in front of a mirror and says: “Am I ugly? Well. I was not happy, as I was nice.”
As a mother, failed
The Film shows not a fallen angel, and Nico is as a failed mother anything other than a sympathy winner. Her son Ari, whose paternity has been recognized Alain Delon never should have taken in the child’s age with you to New York parties. On the tables a variety of drugs were on hand, alcohol was freely accessible everywhere. In the Film the girl from drinking the leftovers.
He grows up, finally, in France with his grandmother. When he returns at the age of 19 years, to Nico, to introduce your son to the Heroin and the Syringes.
In the Film, Nico, who sang in the late 60s on the debut album by the Velvet Underground and after six solo albums, recorded, including Chelsea Girl“ (1967) in the ‘ 80s on small stages and insults her Band in front of the eyes of the public funeral. Their morbid lyrics, it owes the title of “priestess of darkness”. Long ago you no longer want to be Nico, but again, Christa.
“Am I ugly?”, Nico asks in the Film – and finds the affirmative answer as a liberation
The main actress Trine Dyrholm, and the Italian Director Susanna Nicchiarelli resist the temptation to create in the viewer sympathy for the protagonist. The atmosphere of the staging is simply drab and is in stark contrast to the colorful world of the High Society, whose flagship Nico used to be. Dyrholm sang all of the passages themselves, which is likely to have been due to often the leaning vocals and the fierce German accent of Nico is a challenge.
“Nico, 1988” starts on 18. July in the German cinemas – 30. Anniversary of the death of the artist, on 18. July 1988 died in Ibiza after a Bicycle accident at the age of 49 years.