Nico Biopic Sheds Light On Her Life Before And After The Velvet Underground
Nico, 1988 tells the story of the Velvet Underground singer who left for a solo career — one weighed down by her addiction to heroin — and depicts the last, tumultuous year of her life.
Director Susanna Nicchiarelli encountered Nico's work the same way most people do: when a friend made her listen to The Velvet Underground and Nico.
"When I first listened to it was one of the major events of my life," Nicchiarelli says. "I started to be fascinated by the voice of this woman and wonder what her story had been before and after that."
Nicchiarelli's film, , tells the story The film cuts back and forth in time as she struggles to kick her drug addiction, regain custody of her only child and win respect as an artist in her own right.
