Factory Girl (2006)
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.
Watch Trailer
Cast
Similar titles
Reviews
I love this movie so much
Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
hyped garbage
Absolutely Fantastic
The acting was amazing on all parts. The storyline interesting and heartbreaking since its a true story. The only bad thing in this movie was that it makes me want to smoke cigarettes. This is not a happy story,but some true stories are not happy ones. This is a story that deserves to be told. Andy Warhol as a creative and intriguing person and people saying this movie is taking away from that is wrong. Its just showing that he was selfish and you can see at the very end he carried pain over what happened to Eddie Sedgwick in his face and words. Excellent,creative,and powerful. I have gotten several people to watch and they all loved it as well.
Factory Girl is a biographical film based on the life of 1960s underground film star, socialite, and Warhol Superstar Edie Sedgwick.It stars Sienna Miller in the title role together with Guy Pearce and Hayden Christensen.It was directed by George Hickenlooper.In 1943, Edie Sedgwick was born to a wealthy and socially prominent family.She grew up with beauty and money, but also a history of mental illness.She was hospitalized with an eating disorder in her late teens, and by the time she was 21, two of her seven siblings had died before their time. In 1964, she moved to New York City, and quickly made a splash on the Manhattan social scene; she became friendly with the famous pop artist Andy Warhol, who was fascinated by her gamine loveliness and her quirky personality. He wasted no time in casting her in one of his underground movies, and she quickly became a crucial part of his retinue of "superstars." Fashion icon Diana Vreeland was convinced she had the looks and charm to also become a successful model, and soon she was gracing the pages of Life, Vogue, and Glamour. But her instability was hardly helped by her new fast-lane lifestyle, and when she met Billy Quinn, a folk rock singer-songwriter often cited as "the voice of a generation," he persuaded her that Warhol and his associates were simply using her fame and beauty for their own gain, and she found herself torn between two powerful mentors, one of whom had become her lover as well. 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.Her lovely face fills in for luminous but tragic 1960s icon.It portrays account of the short life and photogenic hard times of the first Andy Warhol superstar which could be classified as a story of sex and drugs.Unfortunately,the the movie did not allow us to connect with the main character emotionally and it ended up as a melodrama in more ways than one.Also,it delves only superficially into her character and it fails to tell a coherent story.
Movie is making everything into sentimental stories.Is Andy really a freak? Is Bob Dylan really that handsome?All this is not the concern, to make a movie is to make a story, the purpose is to make a beautiful story, who cares about truth?How can we learn the truth?History channel? Biographies? That will only be another version of a story, the question is, do we really care about the truth? or maybe, we human only like to hear a story.Hayden Christensen for Bob Dylan? I just don't get it :-(
Warhol's art was the antithesis of the notion of the artist--solitary, driven and passionate. instead Warhol--at least every film depiction of him--is a man in search of feeling, using group composition to find it through others, but still never finding true feeling. and his art shows this. when the genuine is missing in his works, he obviously has to resort to trickery and camouflage in order to attract an audience jaded and programmed by realistic photography.and so follows this movie. it is dull, flat and one dimensional. guy pierce couldn't save it, but unfortunately for him, he no doubt jumped at the chance to play Warhol, even for five minutes--and that is too bad. "i shot Andy Warhol"-- now that was a good film. lili taylor deserved at least an Oscar nomination for that role but never got it. if only it was a holocaust picture.