One wonders whether the documentary format would have better served the material than this ill-focused drama. Since real-life family and observers chime in over the end credits, perhaps the filmmakers were thinking the same thing.
Factory Girl
When Andy met Edie, life imitated art.
2006 · 1h 31m · R
Drama, History
Directed by
George Hickenlooper
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Factory Girl
Overview
In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.
Director and cast
- George Hickenlooper Director
- Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick
- Guy Pearce as Andy Warhol
- Hayden Christensen as Musician
- Mena Suvari as Richie Berlin
- Jimmy Fallon as Chuck Wein
- Tara Summers as Brigid Polk
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ingrid Superstar
- Jack Huston as Gerard Malanga
- Armin Amiri as Ondine
- Shawn Hatosy as Syd Pepperman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
I think Sienna Miller does a really nice job of capturing Edie Sedgwick, who really was the fore-runner to Paris Hilton and a lot of other people who are just famous for being famous.
It's a movie without that emotional spark that lets us connect with her, or anybody else.
When Sedgwick's whirl of liberation turns into addiction, cliches stall the plot.
Sedgwick's death seems as predestined as a Hollywood melodrama.
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