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Nico, 1988 takes an absorbing -- and appropriately idiosyncratic -- look at the singer's later years.
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"I'm selective about my audience," says the singer. "I don't need everybody to like me." With a dour, sophisticated film that won't be to everyone's taste, writer-director Nicchiarelli seems to have taken those words to heart. August 17, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
"I'm selective about my audience," says the singer. "I don't need everybody to like me." With a dour, sophisticated film that won't be to everyone's taste, writer-director Nicchiarelli seems to have taken those words to heart.
Brad Wheeler
Dyrholm is aces as Nico. She uncannily summons the singer's brooding performing style, along with her many complications. August 17, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Dyrholm is aces as Nico. She uncannily summons the singer's brooding performing style, along with her many complications.
Peter Howell
"Nico, 1988" is worth a look... for its portrait of a spirit absolutely unyielding, who expected the worst from life and found cold, beautiful comfort when she got it. August 9, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
"Nico, 1988" is worth a look... for its portrait of a spirit absolutely unyielding, who expected the worst from life and found cold, beautiful comfort when she got it.
Ty Burr
There is a low-key blandness to Susanna Nicchiarelli's film... elevated by a subtle, powerful performance by German actress Trine Dyrholm, whose complex and spot-on portrayal of Nico gives the film soul, albeit a lonely one. August 9, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There is a low-key blandness to Susanna Nicchiarelli's film... elevated by a subtle, powerful performance by German actress Trine Dyrholm, whose complex and spot-on portrayal of Nico gives the film soul, albeit a lonely one.
G. Allen Johnson
The film leaves one feeling that few humans have ever been quite so alone as Christa Päffgen, and yet so crowded. August 8, 2018 | Full Review…
The film leaves one feeling that few humans have ever been quite so alone as Christa Päffgen, and yet so crowded.
Carl Wilson
Yet the star of Susanna Nicchiarelli's freely fictionalized biopic, Trine Dyrholm, finds fierce beauty in the woman Nico has become. August 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Yet the star of Susanna Nicchiarelli's freely fictionalized biopic, Trine Dyrholm, finds fierce beauty in the woman Nico has become.
Joe Morgenstern
Not a particularly fun movie to watch, but it is indeed a fascinating one and, if nothing else, it should inspire most viewers, if they haven't already, to go back and revise the Nico discography for themselves. February 21, 2019 | Full Review…
Not a particularly fun movie to watch, but it is indeed a fascinating one and, if nothing else, it should inspire most viewers, if they haven't already, to go back and revise the Nico discography for themselves.
Peter Sobczynski
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. January 11, 2019 | Full Review…
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.
Benjamin H. Smith
Over and over again, Nicchiarelli's film advocates for a recognition of Nico that goes beyond her stint as a singer for The Velvet Underground. January 8, 2019 | Full Review…
Over and over again, Nicchiarelli's film advocates for a recognition of Nico that goes beyond her stint as a singer for The Velvet Underground.
Bedatri D. Choudhury
Overall, this kind of compassionate dismantling of Nico the myth is done with insight, tenderness, and clear-eyed realism. December 26, 2018 | Full Review…
Overall, this kind of compassionate dismantling of Nico the myth is done with insight, tenderness, and clear-eyed realism.
Jonathan Romney
For [fans], Nico, 1988 is like traveling back in time and seeing a god reincarnated. December 22, 2018 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Full Review…
For [fans], Nico, 1988 is like traveling back in time and seeing a god reincarnated.
Marisa Carpico
The story of a heroin addict in midlife, vulgar and morose, may not be prime material for a biopic. December 5, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The story of a heroin addict in midlife, vulgar and morose, may not be prime material for a biopic.
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