[2] It had its world premiere at the 74th Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2017, and was released theatrically in Italy on 12 October 2017 by I Wonder Pictures.

Having risen to fame as a model and a singer for the Velvet Underground, she is tired of talking about her past and prefers to revel in her current image as a bohemian artist.

Nico's addiction to heroin soon proves to be a problem: she is rude to Richard, delivers abrasive performances and angrily berates her band during a concert in Italy before storming off stage.

Before a concert in Paris, Nico mentions her son Ari during an interview and explains she was too wild to have a child at the time of his birth.

Richard agrees to a have Nico perform a guerrilla gig in communist Czechoslovakia at the behest of local dissident artists.

Richard sternly reminds her that there are people around the world who still love her music and that the Czechoslovakian audience are taking a risk to see her perform.

He negotiates a new contract with Nico before she departs ensuring that she and Ari receive their share of royalties from her days with The Velvet Underground and they promise to record a new album together upon her return.

Nico travels to Ibiza for her holiday, but as revealed in the credits, she died on the island on 18 July 1988 at the age of 49 following a cycling accident.

"[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

[12] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times also praised how Dyrholm was photographed in "brutally unforgiving close-up", saying that it "fully captures the faded charisma of the singer" in the last year of her existence.

[13] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "I've never seen a performance quite like it — unsparingly harsh, but also graceful, droll and tender, a portrait of soul-weariness laced with a yearning for salvation.