CATCHING FIRE – THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG

Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill | USA | 2023 | 113’ | OV

Portrait of the Stones muse as a model, actress, fashion designer – and mother: Anita Pallenberg, first in a relationship with Brian Jones, then together with Keith Richards, with whom she had three children, was certainly much more than the groupie she was labelled as by a superficial, resentment-laden tabloid press. Now, in close collaboration with the Richards family, two directors have created a very personal film memorial to the German pop cosmopolitan who died in 2017 (and was born in Hamburg, by the way). Scarlet Johanson reads from Pallenberg’s unpublished memoirs off-screen to previously unseen private photos and Super8 films, and Marlon Richards, Angela Richards, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Kate Moss, Volker Schlöndorff and many more have their say. Chercher la femme: Here it becomes very concrete, the influence of a woman on nothing less than the entire history of pop!