Factory Girl

2006 "When Andy met Edie, life imitated art."
6.4| 1h30m| R| en
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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.

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Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Shadowplayed I caught this film some time ago, and instantly liked it. Even more so upon re-watch. As far as I can see it's somewhat divisive film, people either love it or look down upon it. Most of the resentment seem to come from the inaccurate portrayal of Sedgwick's life and the circle in which she moved....? I can't place a judgment in this respect cause I don't know a thing about this rich socialite and Warhol's one time muse. But, does it really matter?I went in blind and oblivious to the facts and approached the film on its own right, not as biography by numbers. I thought it shone the light on fame and the burden it inflicts upon the people "struck" by it. Whether it's constructed, deliberately sought or accidental, fame's bound to change people and make them feel as if they'd fallen from grace, once its gone.Not that I'm speaking from experience. Something else caught my attention and held the interest. Factory girl gave me a chance to take a peek at the fascinating, complicated, superficial, fabulous and cruel world of pop culture, art, its royalties and its victims. Even rich people cry, right, and though many instances from this dramatized biography might speak ill of everyone involved, I absolutely felt it offers a good look at that infamous gray area between top and bottom of society.Guy Pearce is phenomenal, multidimensional as Warhol and Sienna Miller is fragile, quirky, chic and beautiful enough to fit the role perfectly. I thought the dynamics between the two carried the whole film, with occasional decent supportive roles. Can't sing Pearce enough praise, actually, he is absolutely perfect here, detached, infantile, brilliant, fake, extravagant, self-constructed, jealous and ultimately flawed human being, all at once. I can see Miller's role bit unflattering, cause people don't tend to empathize with spoiled, entitled rich kids. But she brought another dimension to her Edie Segwick, that made me feel for her with all her shortcomings. Easily impressionable, with vastly superficial life style; she does have that freshness of youth and often comes off as naive bundle of emotions. Miller/Sedgwick carries these qualities around constantly throughout the film, she's more childlike than anything else, really.But, there's sort of ménage à trois introduced to the story, when quite self- centered and narcissistic musician Billy Quinn enters Edie's life. Playing hard to get, nonconformist young singer/songwriter marks the downfall of Sedgwick/Warhol friendship and collaboration, really wanting nothing more but a fling, and to settle down nicely with successful career and an uptown girl on his side, eventually.There's really no room for question who's used whom, although it might spring to mind. Next project awaits and next inspiration to turn to...I guess that's show biz for you, and this is one, less ordinary life story. Well made, rich with characters Factory Girl is touching film and an emotional ride.
edumacated 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.
Nic Allen I see that a lot of people have watched this film and jumped straight on the computer to analyse every second of it and criticise every factual inaccuracy.That is part of what makes this film so great in my eyes.Everybody is of course entitled to their opinion of it and not everybody is going to like it. Personally I loved the film; not for its plot or the acting or the way in portrayed the life of Warhol and Sedgwick. I loved it because of the way it was constructed and how it comes together as a final article.In my eyes it is a film how films should be. It is itself a piece of art. In this case it just so happens to be based on true events of life imitating art.The dialogue is excellent and the acting has the same extravagance as the characters the film portrays.I love that so many people have such strong reactions to this film and that most of the reviews you will see are either 1 star or 10 stars. The fact that a film can evoke this emotion from people is nothing short of amazing, it's not made for the people to love it. It's made for the sake of making an excellent artistic film.I believe that by the simple fact of this reaction to it, the film has accomplished everything that it set out to do and Mr. Hickenlooper should feel proud. Wes Anderson fans will most likely understand and love this.
Exxon_1985 I wish i would've met Edie Sedgwick , of how idiotic and purely lovely she was , of how cheeky and thickly lovable person she was , but generally you know what is the problem ? Sienna Miller is NOT . screw details,here we have another Biography | Drama kinda movie. and it is walking in the edge rising and falling fare well . looks like a memorial of how 21 years old Edie rise just joining the porno graphical worthless underground movies of Andy Warhol . though i cant bare judging this raw , but what better idea it can be with such movies.who knows this things? they're kind of art? then go F**k yourselves .1964 and young 21 years old Edie Sedgwick(Sienna Miller) is about to go to art,but her famous and rich far more about thoughts family never let her to do it.she goes party to party with her youth energy to find the gate.finally she finds Andy Warhol(Guy Pearce) who is a little bit bisexual(Jeez what a shame) and works in his independent studio named Factory.she woks in the art work(F**k if i know)a while and making underground movies with him until he meets Bob Dylan(Hayden Christensen) and they start to have relationship.after she screws up with Dylan and Andy,she starts to ruin herself with Drug Addiction and drinking problems.her family force her to rehab in a hospital in 1970.she dies in 1971 of a drug overdose.so many 28 or 27 years old people died during the start of 70 decade.Jim Morrison,Jimi Hendrix,Janis Joplin and ... Edie is one of lost souls of early 70s too.the angel of downtown underworld factory production movies of Andy Warhol.even Andy indicated that he felt some kind of love with Edie that he never felt like before.anyway now both are dead.pulling out of dead people the movie really is not a big something. Sienna Miller is harshly trying to mimic like Edie,spectacular similarities they both have,but because i have not seen Edie before,i cant judge of how she was.but in such weak movie , her performance is good.you know i believe they don't make a decent Biography film nowadays and its not Sienna's problem . its just that it is not a costly production with superstars.Edie herself was not a superstar and the only bright spot can be her ended relation with Bob Dylan.it was nice to meet you Edie,may you rest in piece forever. may that interrupted soul will settle somewhere in the time...