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.

In Susanna Nicchiarelli’s film, Nico, 1988, the post-Velvet Underground life and career of the singer born Christa Päffgen is retold, with magnificent raw power by its star, Dutch actress Trine ...

In “Nico, 1988,” it is two decades after that. She is nearing 50, her exotic looks are gone, drugs are taking their toll, and her career has been reduced to playing bars and other small venues.

'Nico, 1988' chronicles singer's 1987 solo tour, heroin addiction. By Ryan Reed. Ryan Reed New Edition, ... Nico attempts to get clean from drugs as the tour winds on.

Danish actress Trine Dyrholm plays Nico as she was in the late 1980s, no longer svelte, no longer blonde, human wreckage wrangling with a heroin habit and lacking all patience for audiences or ...

It’s a defiant stance made clear at the onset of “Nico, 1988,” an offbeat, behind-the-music biopic chronicling the final two years of Päffgen’s troubled relationships with fame, drugs and ...

If you know the name Nico at all, it’s from a brief moment in time in the 1960s when she collaborated with Lou Reed on the iconic “The Velvet Underground & Nico” album and was anointed by ...

It’s a defiant stance made clear at the onset of “Nico, 1988,” an offbeat, behind-the-music biopic chronicling the final two years of Päffgen’s troubled relationships with fame, drugs and ...