A fascinating, aesthetically pleasing and ghostly portrait of a woman who (forceful diatribe starts here) has only received approx. one millionth of the praise she actually deserves in the Anglosphere. What are you doing, American alternative music press? 'We love women in rock music! so empowering' then start actually mentioning and bringing attention to Nina Hagen, the best female musician to ever live, you lily-livered scoundrels. This film was so amazing because I got to travel back to a time when select English speakers had actually heard of her and knew some of her songs #wronggeneration. Here Hagen is a manifestation of literally every female archetype from every religion and mythological canon. She is an artistic muse, she is a loving mother, she is a ghostly mermaid on a beach. She is a lone mournful woman in the window singing the Habanera from Carmen. At one point 'Fisch Im Wasser' is used as incidental music and it's perfect. We get to actually meet Angelyne (the 'billboard queen' from her song Super Freak Family), who says Nina is wonderful. I agree. She sits in front of a pink house in the mountains, wearing all-black, and discusses the goddess Kali, and it's literally like making friends with an actual witch. The visuals of this film are so in sync with her music, ie. both beautiful and technically impressive and also clearly made during bouts of insanity. The star makes it what it is! Where did she come from!My top 10 Hagen songs in no particular order: Auf'm Friedhof, My Sensation, Antiworld, Zarah, Schuttel Mich, Naturtrane, Gods of Aquarius, Love-Hi, Blumen fur die Damen, German version of NY NY, literally everything else she's ever made. God she makes me so happy! I better receive a written apology ASAP from all extant Western music journalists for legit never writing about her in the 21st century.
