Nico Icon (1995)

Critic Reviews

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  That voyeuristic fascination with doomed glamour is one of the guilty pleasures of Susanne Ofteringer's utterly haunting documentary film, Nico Icon.

• Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

  Nico-Icon is more than the investigation of a doomed celebrity: It's also a mirror reflecting her friends, her audience and pop culture.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  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.

• James Berardinelli, ReelViews

  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.

• Pat Kramer, Boxoffice Magazine

  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.

• Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

  This picture is a mess. It never presents a compelling case of why we should care about Nico.

• Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

  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.

• Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com

  Catching a look at what took a gorgeous kid, full of life, into a rare freak show is certainly worth a look.

• Barbara Shulgasser, San Francisco Examiner

  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.

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