ANITA
The intimate life of an icon with Anita
Model, film actress, and official member of The Rolling Stones, Anita Pallenberg electrified the public with her talent as well as her excesses. Anita, the documentary by Zvetlana Zill and Alexis Bloom, goes beyond the scandals by painting an intimate portrait of the muse. Presented in Cannes Classics.
Anita reveals the story of a rocker, actress, muse and fierce mother who rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s. The documentary plunges us into the world of Anita Pallenberg with the help of a cast that includes her family—Marlon, Angela, and their father Keith Richards. Never-before-seen home movies and family photos recount the life of the icon with the Rolling Stones, from the set of Barbarella to the Swiss Alps and New York’s Lower East Side.
In 2008, Anita Pallenberg told the British newspaper The Guardian that she had given up writing her autobiography. Fifteen years later—and six years after her death—the life of this sixties idol is told through personal archives. A close friend of Andy Warhol, she kept company with the Rolling Stones at the start of the 1960s and became known through her romance with Brian Jones and then Keith Richards, the group’s guitarist.
An extraordinary journey for this German-Italian model who launched into cinema in 1967 with Mord und Totschlag (A Degree of Murder), by Volker Schlöndorff, presented In Competition at Cannes. That same year, she played opposite Jane Fonda in Barbarella. Despite a series of scandals in the 1970s, Anita Pallenberg acted for Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Garel, Abel Ferrara, and even John Malkovich. At the same time, she developed her career as a fashion designer all while taking care of her two children. The documentary captures the essence of the life of this actress and muse of rock ‘n’ Roll through a bittersweet tale of adventures.
