Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.
Acting
Richard Hell basically playing himself—raw, magnetic, disastrous.
Cinematography
Grimy neon-soaked Lower East Side as its own character.
Production
Real CBGB-era cameos make it accidentally documentary.
Director
Ulli Lommel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lommel was part of the German New Wave before diving into NYC punk; this film sits awkwardly between European art-house pretension and American underground rawness.
The 'Andy Warhol' plotline never resolves because Warhol refused to appear—his absence becomes the film's accidental masterpiece.
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