NIKI
starring CHARLOTTE LE BON from WHITE LOTUS
A film by Celine Sallette
The extraordinary rise of Iconic French Artist Niki de Saint Phalle.
A portrait of courage, creativity, and healing.
Selected for Un Certain Regard at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, NIKI is the luminous debut of Céline Sallette — an intimate, powerful portrait of one of contemporary art’s most iconoclastic figures. Sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and feminist icon, Niki de Saint-Phalle lived as fearlessly as she created. But who was Niki before the world knew her name?
Starring Charlotte Le Bon (White Lotus 2025) in the titular role. Escaping the grip of 1950s America, a young Niki de Saint Phalle arrives in Paris desperate to find freedom and self-expression. While navigating motherhood, Niki’s haunted past emerges — until trauma explodes into uncontainable, revolutionary art.
Iconic artist Niki de Saint Phalle shattered rigid expectations of womanhood, forging a fearless new language of feminism through bold, explosive art. Against all odds, she transformed personal pain into monumental works like HON, the 25M long supine pregnant woman where the public enter the scuplture via the vagina” espousing female strength and the unapologetic power of womanhood, emerging as a trailblazing force: sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and fearless feminist.
NIKI is not just a biopic — it is a visceral, visually rich meditation on resilience, female agency, and the unstoppable drive to create ART.
QUOTES
“A raw, emotional performance from Charlotte Le Bon dominates a film that gradually reveals the way in which art becomes a way of conquering trauma and finding a voice for this ground breaking mid-century sculptor.”
SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
“Charlotte Le Bon packs a lot into her magnificent portrait of iconic French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. [Le Bon] is excellent, bringing the multitude of personality types – mother, spontaneous thinker, intellectual and gun enthusiast to the big screen.”
DMOVIES
“Actress and director Céline Sallette directs a Niki de Saint Phalle biopic as shimmering as the artist's works.”
SORTIR A PARIS
