Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli at Cinema around Vesuvius

This evening, Monday 25 June, the award-winning “Nico, 1988” by Susanna Nicchiarelli will be presented at the “Cinema intorno al Vesuvio” festival by journalist and music critic Carmine Aymone.
Set between Paris, Prague, Nuremberg, Manchester, the Polish countryside and the Roman coast, Nico, 1988 is a road movie dedicated to the last years of Christa Päffgen, aka Nico. Warhol's muse, singer of the Velvet Underground and a woman of legendary beauty, Nico lives a second life after the story everyone knows, when she begins her solo career. The "priestess of darkness", as she was called, truly finds herself after the age of forty, when she frees herself from the weight of her beauty and manages to rebuild a relationship with her only forgotten son. "Nico, 1988" tells the story of Nico's last tours and the band that accompanied her around Europe in the '80s. It is the story of a rebirth, of an artist, of a mother, of a woman beyond her icon.
"My idea - says the director - was to reinterpret, relive and emotionally rework all the components of Nico's story, to make it contemporary and universal. With Trine I shared the long biographical research I had done, the materials, the interviews with witnesses: together with her I reconstructed a difficult, controversial, sometimes unpleasant character; together we faced the challenge that even the public, as had happened to us, could root for her. I wanted to tell Nico's story through her music of those years".
The film won the Orizzonti Award for Best Film at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and the 2018 David di Donatello Award for Best Original Screenplay.