Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg was a model, an actor (including appearances in Nicolas Roeg’s Performance and Roger Vadim's legendary cult guilty pleasure Barbarella), and a fashion icon of the sixties and seventies. Originally the partner of Rolling Stones bassist Brian Jones, she then had a tumultuous relationship of many years with Keith Richards, whom she married and had children with; but first and foremost, she was a tempestuous woman, a person full of energy and passion, who lived her life to the max. Scarlett Johansson lents her voice to Annita in this fascinating documentary, which takes us back to the sixties and seventies, the period when Pallenberg was a sort of informal member of the Stones, thus serving as a side portrait of Keith Richards. A passionate biography, groovy as a rock and roll anthem, bittersweet, melancholy, and tense, which captures an entire era through the eyes of this fiery figure who passed away in 2017 but continues to inspire as a symbol of empowerment, dynamism, and a larger-than-life temperament.