![]() ![]() That’s even true of Nico’s troubled son (Sandor Funtek), a drug-addled lovechild from her affair with Alain Delon. In fact, it flows best as an egotistic slipstream, the thin supporting characters only notable when they’re reduced to collateral damage. Thanks to the fleshed out messiness of Dyrholm’s performance, and how eerily the former Eurovision contestant brings Nico back to life whenever she sings, the movie is able to support the sketchiness of its approach. At the very least, there’s something to be said for a biopic that doesn’t feel a need to fill in the blank spaces of its subject’s Wikipedia page, or shape their defining moments into a clear trajectory (Nicchiarelli has fun mocking genre conventions, especially with an expository voiceover track that only speaks in the legalese of a custody hearing). There’s a deliberate opaqueness at work, as though Nicchiarelli believes it would be dishonest - or even disrespectful - to render Nico’s singular life in more comprehendible terms. “I’ve been on the top, I’ve been on the bottom - both places are empty.” “I really don’t care about music anymore,” she announces at one point. She refuses to look backwards, she gives herself no reason to look forwards, and heroin is the only thing that seems to keep her in the moment. ![]() Her singing voice is a hollow drone, and her speaking voice is inflected with an almost senile rudeness. Convincingly reanimated by the great Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, this Nico has bags under her eyes and bruises around the needle holes in her feet. ‘Anselm’ Review: Wim Wenders’ New 3D Documentary Is a Vivid, ASMR-Like ExperienceĪ defiantly anti-dramatic chronicle of the European tour that turned out to be Nico’s last, Nicchiarelli’s film is not the story of a woman who’s sad to be in her forties - if anything, it’s the story of a woman who’s so happy to be invisible that she’s done everything in her power to speed up the process. Lead vocals on there songs, some mindless tambourine shaking on the others, and a short lifetime of telling people not to call her “Lou Reed’s femme fatale.” Nobody even mentions that she was in “La Dolce Vita”! Several decades into a tortured and compelling solo career, and everything she does is still overshadowed by the one thing she did. The first 90 seconds of Susanna Nicchiarelli’s gloomy and grounded biopic visit all three of these periods (though the rest of it is almost exclusively set in the last one), “Nico, 1988” introducing its subject as someone who can’t extricate her present from her past. Twenty years after that, she sits in a Manchester radio station, patchy and strung out and shutting down any questions about her stint with The Velvet Underground - she’ll be dead in two years, but it looks as if she’s already decomposing. Twenty years later, she reappears as a blonde chanteuse in Andy Warhol’s New York City, her stage name attached to one of the most influential records in the history of popular music. Love Is All You Need Photos TROUBLED WATER, (aka DEUSYNLIGE), from left: Trine Dyrholm, Trond Espen Seim, 2008.A little girl stands on the outskirts of Berlin and watches from a distance as orange fire melts the city into a shapeless candied glow. Since then she's lent her voice to several episodes of the animated TV series "The Fairytaler," based on author Hans Christian Anderson's classic children's stories portrayed a spiteful beauty shop owner in the melodramatic love story "En Soap" and broken through to international audiences with her role as a bitter wife and mother in the Oscar-winning drama "In a Better World." In 1998 she landed a breakout role as a bewildered hotel maid in the caustic family drama "The Celebration," the first film created under the strict rules of Dogme 95 and won acclaim for her role as a tortured miracle worker in "In Your Hands," which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the influential Danish film movement. She won praise for her film debut in the romantic drama "Springflod" as Pauline, an innocent country girl who falls in love with a reckless city boy, after which she enrolled in the Danish National School of Theater. ![]() The annual competition, which determines Denmark's entry into the long-running "Eurovision Song Contest," launched Dyrholm's career as an entertainer and ignited her interest in acting. Dyrholm spent her youth performing with a local Danish orchestra and became a household name in 1987 when her group, Trine & The Moonlighters, took third place in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. Trine Dyrholm is one of Denmark's most famous and successful actresses as well as an accomplished singer-songwriter.
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