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01/26/06
Nico Icon (1995)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 10 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 67 mins
Synopsis: This jarring profile of Warhol protege, Velvet Underground vocalist, and unrepentant lifelong heroin addict Nico (nee Christa Paffgen) gives an insider's look into the strange, tragic, but ultimately glamorous life of this 1960s icon. Nico moved from her native Germany to Paris,... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Andy Warhol, Viva, Lou Reed, John Cale, Jackson Browne
Director: Susanne Ofteringer
Screenwriter: Susanne Ofteringer
Producer: Annette Pisacane, Thomas Mertens
Screenwriter: Susanne Ofteringer
Producer: Annette Pisacane, Thomas Mertens
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1 - 15 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
That voyeuristic fascination with doomed glamour is one of the guilty pleasures of Susanne Ofteringer's utterly haunting documentary film, Nico Icon.
05/20/03
Top Critic
Nico Icon is a powerful, often disturbing portrayal of a woman haunted by her elevation to icon status for little more than her physical attributes.
06/05/02
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02/14/01
Top Critic
Nico, the beautiful heroin-addicted, one-time model and actress turned pop singer, is a strange subject for a documentary. Director Susanne Ofteringer took the strangeness and ran with it.
01/01/00
Catching a look at what took a gorgeous kid, full of life, into a rare freak show is certainly worth a look.
01/01/00
Nico-Icon is more than the investigation of a doomed celebrity: It's also a mirror reflecting her friends, her audience and pop culture.
01/01/00
Though Nico Icon is replete with fascinating tidbits about the model-turned- singer's opinions and lovers, it does little to bring us understanding of the real person.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Nico Icon tells us more than we ever knew about this pop star yet manages to leave the mysterious reflecting pool that will forever be Nico intact.
01/01/00
The movie has no moral or message, does not attempt to rehabilitate Nico as an anti-heroine, and finds mostly emptiness and sadness in her life. I have a feeling Nico would have enjoyed it.
01/01/00
Top Critic
This picture is a mess. It never presents a compelling case of why we should care about Nico.
01/01/00
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