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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg: reexamining the life of a 1960s icon

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tricky terrain of ‘historical reclamation’ of an under-recognised woman – is drawn from the actress Anita Pallenberg’s unpublished memoir, which she said she would never write, but which was found after her death. She was partner to Brian Jones and later Keith Richards, and obituaries in 2017 led with her ‘vital role’ as a muse to the Rolling Stones, inspiring their aesthetic (big furs, paisley-patterned kaftans, floppy hats) and hit songs. Catching Fire shows her as a 60s thought leader, connecting the Stones to what Marianne Faithfull called the “wayward jeunesse dorée”.

Scarlett Johansson voice’s Anita’s words, a distracting choice, especially when we hear her real pan-European accent. The film skims over Pallenberg’s childhood in German-occupied Rome and years in New York’s downtown scene (“Ginsberg collected pubic hair from famous people – he didn’t ask me”) but has welcome insight on her early film career. There are clips of her beatnik femme

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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg review – rockn’roll ‘muse’ in the spotlight

Anita Pallenberg endured many things, including the condescension of being labelled “muse” to the Rolling Stones. She became the girlfriend of Brian Jones who abused her, married Keith Richards who neglected her and then co-starred in the movie Performance with Mick Jagger, who fell unrequitedly in love with her. Now this documentary tells Pallenberg’s strange, sad, melodramatic story, with Scarlett Johansson voicing Pallenberg’s memories from her unpublished autobiography entitled Black Magic, discovered in manuscript after her death in 2017.

Born to a wealthy, cultured German family in Rome, Pallenberg did a bit of modelling and was then discovered by director Volker Schlöndorff. After she played a few minor movie roles, including opposite Jane Fonda in Barbarella, Pallenberg was cast in another role by the Rolling Stones: the exciting but pointless real-life part of uber rock chick, putting her at the very centre of the 60s rock’n’roll scene but also weirdly peripheral to it. In the stran

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“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. Maybe people confuse me with the characters I play in films … like I’m an empty vessel onto which they project their fantasies and their shortcomings, but I don’t need to settle scores. I’m reclaiming my soul. I write as a woman searching for another adventure.”

Thus begins Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill’s documentary “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg.” Scarlett Johansson provided the voice-over, reading from an unpublished memoir written by model-actress-artist-icon Anita Pallenberg. Found by her children after her death in 2017, the words contained “will anger the lawyers,” she wrote. If only the rest of the documentary lived up to the vibrant voice Pallenberg established for herself.

Like any number of recent bio-docs, the filmmakers use archival footage, film clips, photographs, and interviews with those who knew her, including director Volker Schlöndorff, her children Marlon and Angela, and even Keith Richards himself, to craft a surface-level re