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May 16, 2024 · Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg film review — riveting and sober portrait. The model and actress’s own memoir forms the basis of this revealing documentary. Rock scenester:...
- Jonathan Romney
May 21, 2024 · Catching Fire – a documentary that enters the tricky terrain of ‘historical reclamation’ of an under-recognised woman – is drawn from the actress Anita Pallenberg’s unpublished memoir, which she said she would never write, but which was found after her death.
May 23, 2024 · Entrusted to co-directors Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill, that phantom book and precious footage form the heart of Catching Fire, a vital, definitive portrait of Pallenberg.
May 10, 2024 · When viewed from a perspective that kicks off the sexist dust — as done in the propulsive new documentary “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg” — it becomes possible to think of the...
- Robert Abele
May 17, 2024 · This film, made with the blessing of her son Marlon Richards, is based on an unpublished memoir found after Pallenberg’s death: telling extracts, read by Scarlett Johansson, are enhanced by an...
- Paul Whitington
May 22, 2024 · Directed by Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill, Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg manages to do all that, and more. It’s a passionate account of a woman who scorched and blazed her way through the ebb and flows of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.
May 16, 2024 · What is undoubtedly good about this documentary is the efficiency with which it has been mounted even if one late sequence is overdramatised due to it incorporating brief moments of reconstruction. Lasting close on two hours the film is rather longer than the average documentary but it moves at a good pace and never starts to drag.
