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 radio ...
It’s not easy negotiating life when the public prefers your stage persona over your true self. But it was particularly frustrating for Christa Päffgen. Right up until her untimely death 30 years ago ...
“Please don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them,” sings German model-actress-musician Nico on 1967’s Jackson Browne-penned “These Days,” one of her signature post-Velvet ...
In 1966, Andy Warhol sat down with the 28-year-old supermodel Christa Päffgen and filmed her for over an hour as bright, colorful lights and psychedelic patterns poured across her face. Päffgen, ...
"I don't need everybody to like me, I don't care." Magnolia Pictures has debuted the trailer for a film titled Nico, 1988, a music biopic profiling the life of singer-songwriter Christa Päffgen, ...
The woman you see in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s extraordinary Nico, 1988 is not the Nico you know — the icy Teutonic chanteuse who blessed Velvet Underground tunes like “All Tomorrow’s Parties” with her ...
This music biopic chronicles the last two years of Warhol superstar Christa Päffgen (a.k.a. Nico). It showcases her underground music solo performances, erratic moods, heroin addiction, and her ...