The self-described wild child was famous for her relationships with various Rolling Stones—but as ‘Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg’ shows, she was much more than a supporting character.
The intimate, insidery new documentary Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg, directed by Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill, offers a fuller appraisal. Pallenberg was a Catholic high school dropout, who moved to New York City at age 21, speaking little English. She nevertheless charmed her way into the downtown pop art scene—washing brushes for Jasper Johns, meeting Andy Warhol, and attending a party where Allen Ginsberg collected famous people’s pubic hair.
“There was this sort of Bonnie and Clyde thing about it,” he says—mostly because they were both using heroin and struggling with addiction at the time. In the film, Faithfull says she wrote the song “Sister Morphine” for Pallenberg after Pallenberg discovered that she was pregnant with Marlon—and, incredibly, got a shot of the narcotic to deal with withdrawal. Her friend was further stymied by Richards’s edict that Pallenberg not work.
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