Christiane F.
Scored to Bowie’s Berlin-era tracks—and featuring an on-screen performance by the artist himself—Christiane F. remains one of the most searing portrayals of drug addiction ever committed to film, set against the cold, dislocated cityscape of 1970s West Berlin.
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Adapted from Christiane Felscherinow’s best-selling memoir, Christiane F. remains one of the most searing portrayals of drug addiction ever committed to film, set against the cold, dislocated cityscape of 1970s West Berlin. Christiane (Natja Brunckhorst, in a devastating debut performance) starts out as a bored 13-year-old obsessed with David Bowie and experimenting with pills and alcohol at a nightclub. Within a year, she’s shooting heroin and resorting to sex work as her world contracts to graffitied train station bathrooms and squalid concrete flats. Uli Edel’s vérité-style approach—handheld camerawork, location shooting, and a cast of nonprofessional actors and actual denizens of Bahnhof Zoo—captures a generation slipping through the cracks with unnerving realism, while Bowie’s moody, glamorous Berlin-era soundtrack (and on-screen performance) infuses the film with an achingly cool glamor that forever hovers just out of reach. Long unavailable, Christiane F. returns to Film at Lincoln Center in a stunning new 4K restoration. A Janus Films release.
One of the most horrifying movies I have ever seen.”
—Roger Ebert
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