Factory Girl

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Factory Girl

Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari

Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.

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  • SirPant
    October 2, 2009
    SirPant
    I really liked this film! It sounds like I'm alone though. Sure the editing is a little muddled, it?s a little bit over the place but I think that it actually works quite well! Miller is brilliant as Sedgwick, I really think she has been treated badly in the press and in casting,...( read more) she is a rare talent that is being wasted in my opinion. I really hope she gets more action over the next few years, I believe she's destined to be top of the game soon. Guy Pearce is equally impressive as Warhol and is just as good as David Bowie in my opinion! (Basquiat, 1996)
    Hayden Christensen is the only problem in this film. His is an impression more than a performance or interpretation and not a particularly good one at that.
    George Hickenlooper is a director you can rely on. His documentaries are great and this film has just the right balance of both. At an hour and a half, the information is crammed in and there is more to tell about the Factory but as an insight into the life of Sedgwick I think it?s pretty much spot on.
  • rebvodka042099
    August 16, 2008
    rebvodka042099
    I didn't have many expectations out of this movie. But it was good, actually. The direction was unconventional and the storyline gripping interesting, but what makes this movie are the performances. Sienna Miller, whose acting skills I doubt quite a lot, was actually somewhat abo...( read more)ve pretty decent and Hayden Christensen, who has also given us reasons to doubt his talent, shines through in the role of a young Bob Dylan. But the actor most worth mentioning in this case is Guy Pearce, who personally blew me away in the role of Andy Warhol. Congratulations to Pearce, because I hadn't seen him acting so great since "Memento." A good, totally indie film that deserves some attention.
  • dooritor1
    July 9, 2008
    dooritor1
    ooo best warhol cover ever!! hes terrific and this actor, guy pearce?, made me shivver with glee and creepiness.
    Not accurate! as far as i know, i know the folk singer was spose to be like bob dylan but its a far cry from it. also ignored lou reeds effect on edie. the usage of o...( read more)ld footage was brilliant tho. i really liked that. this suprised me greatly, cuz boy do i hate jimmy fallon, but that element was overtaken by siennas performance.damn,born to play that role, but she cant do anyone else tho.too bad this was SUCH A FLOP. eh, its a movie worth watching for any Nostalgic or counterculture people..
  • EarthlyAlien
    June 14, 2008
    EarthlyAlien
    Andy Warhol: "I think I'll quit my painting and, just make Edie a big star."

    It took me a while to finally watch Factory Girl, a story which tells of a wealthy party girl, a poor little rich kid's trials and tribulations, her parties and the friends she keeps, her...( read more) influences and vices ranging from hard drinking to drug taking. No, it's not about Paris Hilton (you can wager some money that one will be out when she's dead, hopefully soon), but probably a precursor to her, a woman called Edie Sedgwick, who lived and died hard and fast. It's not the first time where we have rich young girls choosing a totally different 'career' path for herself, the other in recent memory being Domino Harvey, played by Keira Knightley in Domino.

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    Sienna Miller - like Knightley - has an uncanny facial resemblance to the real Edie Sedgwick, and hence an almost automatic choice in taking on the character. The film brings us on a journey of her very short life, having passed away before reaching 30. We see the wrong choices she made in life, her clueless attitude in coasting along with her drug addiction and decadent celebrity lifestyle, having been brought about Superstardom by Andy Warhol (an almost unrecognisable Guy Pearce) through casting her in his avant garde films, and constant media praising.

    The factory in Factory Girl refers to Andy Warhol's studio, a loft where he let his creativity run free. Akin to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion if I may say, where you see plenty of leeches doing what they do best, and that's to kiss Warhol's rear. The film's main concern is to examine the impact Warhol had on Sedgwick's life, her being his muse, and frequently seen and photographed together. But the portrayal here makes him look very much a pompous prick who has problems with his own sexuality, though adopting a very protective attitude towards his exploited creations, nary sharing his wealth with his posse, who are probably satisfied with licking up the crumbs that get fallen off the table.

    But the more peculiar bit of casting and characterization, is that of Hayden Christensen's "Musician", an amalgamation of boyfriends that Sedgwick had, but implicitly, and quite obviously through the make-up and costumes, that Bob Dylan's the one being referred to here. While we see how the clash of egos between Warhol and Musician comes to drastically affect Sedgwick's life, the film didn't evoke any sense of pity on Edie, and more often than not, makes us feel that she deserved whatever punishment that Life dished out to her.

    The presentation styles adopted by director George Hickenlooper were pretty mixed, constantly shifting visual techniques from documentary-styled interviews, to the incorporation of remade avant garde films, from colour to black and white. It never knew quite what to be. While the focus is supposed to be on Edie Sedgwick given the title, in reality, Andy Warhol as a character gets to share just about as much spotlight, which is sort of understandable, since he's the more famous of the two. However, what the filmmakers seemed to forget is that this was supposed to be a chronicle of her life, not Warhol's, no matter how big of a role he played in it.

    To be fair, Sienna Miller - who I've always considered a fine actress - completely embraces the part and plays the perfect victim, writhing around her hotel bedroom consumed by drugs surrounded by advantage takers. She also looks fantastic and it's a minor miracle the lashings of make-up she wears throughout never blurs. Guy Pearce, playing Warhol as a quiet influential type living with his practising Polish Catholic mother, looks like a carbon copy of the real deal, taking a leaf out of Philip Seymour Hoffman's Truman Capote, only with an increased amount of meanness. He detracts attention onto Edie as if her beauty may possibly rub off on to his ugliness. She is perfect arm candy for his insecurities.

    When the end credits rolled, interviews with real friends and relatives tell us a little bit more on Edie Sedgwick, but I felt it was too little too late, that the film itself squandered this opportunity to tell a more compelling narration of her life. Instead, those interested in more would probably hit Wikipedia and do some reading up on Andy Warhol, and Edie Sedgwick. Which is really a shame... such fascinating people deserved better.
  • Redlats
    January 28, 2008
    Redlats
    This is not a film I like watching. I don't care much for Andy Warhol, I don't care much for drugs, I don't remember Edie Sedgwick. But the movie isn't badly done.
  • spiralrayonshorts
    December 26, 2009
    spiralrayonshorts
    Even though it's about Edie Sedgewick it's Guy Pearce as Andy Warhol that steals the show..the rest is just another common story of a unknown becoming famous and dying of drug use.
  • iamuncool
    December 8, 2009
    iamuncool
    i quite liked it. was impressed by sienna miller. didnt know she could actually act. guy pearce was also fucking amazing as andy warhol. tragic film imo. got me crying at the end.
  • CarterBryce
    December 5, 2009
    CarterBryce
    walk in with one point of view and walk out with a whole different view.
  • thoms51
    November 24, 2009
    thoms51
    Well played, makes you hate some and love some and feel sorry for some. All too real depiction of a wasted life.
  • ythelastman89
    November 18, 2009
    ythelastman89
    Guy Pearce was so good that I literally believed he was Andy Warhol for an hour and a half. Sienna Miller and Hayden Christensen also did a great job with their characters. The movie itself was a really great depiction of that time period and I really felt I was in the 60's while...( read more) watching it.
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