Say what you will about Brian Jones, but it was Keith Richards’ longtime lover who created the template for the band’s swaggering image.
“Why do you want to talk about Brian?” Alexis Bloom, the co-director, with Svetlana Zill, of the new documentaryand Pallenberg’s lover during the 60s heyday of the band. “They were young, they were on drugs, he was dazzling, he was a good musician. But he beat her. He beat everyone else. It’s like, she was going to stay around?”
“We set out to make an honest film with the incredible material that gave us insight into Anita’s perspective and this sort of lived experience that is very real,” Zill explains. “So, it’s not a glossy, 2024 version of what we think 1968 was like. It’s what 1968 actually was like. And it was more about leaning into the complicated, three-dimensional person that Anita was.
And while the family exerted no control, nor did they meddle as the filmmakers delved deep into Pallenberg’s life, both Zill and Bloom agree that without Keith and Anita’s son Marlon Richards’ support—as well as that of his sister, Angela—the film would not have been possible. “You want to be with him, in the time period, when he’s in his 20s and 30s, living this experienced life,” Zill says.
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