Factory Girl (Unrated)

The Weinstein Company - The Weinstein Company

Release date: 2007-07-17
DVD
Director:George Hickenlooper
Actors: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Jack Huston

Actor's Life, Biography [feature], Color, Color and B&W, Drama, Drug Addiction, Drug Content, English, Enigmatic, Feature, Ironic, Irreverent, Movie, Nudity, Period Film, Polish, Profanity, Quirky, Rise and Fall Stories, Social Climbing


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I hated Sienna Miller in Layer Cake. She pranced around in her underwear a lot of the time. She does the same in this too, there are quite a few scenes where Edie seems to live in her underwear, but there's almost a certain innocence to it somehow.

Sienna Miller is of course more well known for her personal life these days, than her film career, and people seem to forget that. This is actually the first film I've seen of hers since Layer Cake, and was surprised when she was actually really good. It shows a great actor when you forget who they really are, they manage to become that character. It would have been especially hard to become such a tortured character like Edie Sedgewick was.

The film is basically centred around Edie's short life. Interspersed with scenes of Edie being interviewed when she's in rehab I think? Those scenes were the only parts I didn't like, as it didn't seem to add anything to the movie.

Guy Pearce who plays Andy Warhol in this, was the weirdest character. He actually gave me the shivers watching him on screen. I don't really know anything about Andy Warhol (or Edie Sedgewick for that matter) and the apparent similarities between Hayden Christensen's character and Bob Dylan I didn't notice. Really, this was a blind impulse buy.

For anyone who wasn't from the era this movie was based in, like me, won't really know the music. It didn't really do anything for me, add to the movie or anything. The fashion was cool, but I've seen better. It didn't really scream sixties if you know what I mean?

Overall, Factory Girl was a good little movie, not too long, not too short, quite sad towards the end, and with a couple of interesting features. But I finished it feeling I hadn't really found out anything about Edie Sedgewick. It skimmed over the top of her life, and left me feeling a bit empty afterwards.

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Factory Girl is a movie that weaves three major characters Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan together in a tragic, real-life drama. Movies about the lives of famous people allow us to open the door to their life-time choices and it was sad to see the trajectory of Edith Minturn Sedgwick, known by all her friends as "Edie."

Born on April 20th, 1943 to a wealthy family, Edie was the daughter of Alice Delano de Forest and Francis Minturn Sedgwick, who was a sculptor, philanthropist and rancher. Edie came from a well established family in Massachusetts, but her parents had moved to California, where she is born in Santa Barbara. Her ancestors can be traced back to her seventh grandfather, who was the first Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

At the early age of 22, she meets Andy Warhol and begins a relationship with him, appearing in many of his movies, becoming a regular at The Factory, the studio where Warhol met with associates and friends while pursuing his endeavors. Andrew Warhol was born on August 6th, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so when he met Edie he was in his late 30's. Andy started his career as a commercial illustrator and soon became famous for his work as a painter and his unique pop art, the name given to his 60's paintings of American products such as Campbell's Soup and Coca Cola cans.

The movie shows an insecure, troubled young woman, who involves herself in drug use which ultimately causes her demise. At some point, she meets Bob Dylan, an American song writer, author, poet and guitar player, but Andy Warhol becomes either jealous or resentful and he stops devoting his attention to Edie, who can not understand the motives behind his abandonment and loses control of herself.

The movie is well done, providing great detail into the lives of people we did not know much about, but the story of Edie Sedgwick left us saddened to see a young girl with great promise deteriorate to the point of self-destruction. Great acting.



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Reshoots and delayed release dates are usually indicative of cinematic disaster. That is not the case for "Factory Girl."

This an amazing cinematic experience. Both a compelling look at the beginnings of celebrity culture and the highly personal story of a sad, lonely young woman at the center of a maelstrom beyond her control, "Factory Girl" is excellent.

Leads Sienna Miller (whose off-screen infamy sadly tends to outshadow her on-screen work) and Guy Pearce are very well-cast as Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol. The ostensible muse and poseur artist are a match made in hell, each feeding off the other until one is eaten alive by fame.

This is a rich, detailed film worthy of repeated viewings. With the exceptions of Hayden Christensen (especially disappointing considering his award-worthy work in "Shattered Glass") and Jimmy Fallon (is it possible to be less than one-dimensional? If so, Fallon has the secret), the casting could not have been better. Artful use of different film stocks helps to set the scene. The attention to detail pays enormous dividends as a powerful emotional story unfolds.

DVD extras are magnificent: an insightful biography of the real-life Edie includes commentary from dozens of survivors, Guy Pearce's video diary is an enlightening look behind the scenes, and Sienna Miller's audition tape is remarkable for the mere hint it offers of her superb work in the finished film.

For younger audiences, it's a fascinating look into the beginnings of the days when fame first became its own reward. For those who remember the 1960's, it's a pitch-perfect flashback.

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