Factory Girl (2006)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

George Hickenlooper

Writers:

Captain Mauzner (screenplay)
Simon Monjack (story) ...

Release Date:

2 February 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Tagline:

When Andy met Edie, life imitated art.

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Warhol | Folk Singer | Rise And Fall | Artist | Socialite

Cast

Sienna Miller	...	Edie Sedgwick
Guy Pearce	...	Andy Warhol
Hayden Christensen	...	Musician
Jimmy Fallon	...	Chuck Wein
Jack Huston	...	Gerard Malanga
Armin Amiri	...	Ondine
Tara Summers	...	Brigid Polk
Mena Suvari	...	Richie Berlin
Shawn Hatosy	...	Syd Pepperman
Beth Grant	...	Julia Warhol
James Naughton	...	Fuzzy Sedgwick
Edward Herrmann	...	James Townsend
Illeana Douglas	...	Diana Vreeland
Mary Elizabeth Winstead	...	Ingrid Superstar
Don Novello	...	Mort Silvers

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive drug use, strong sexual content, nudity and language.

Runtime:

USA:99 min (unrated version) | USA:90 min | Argentina:99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Slovak | French

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:16 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated (DVD) | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Singapore:M18 | Italy:VM14 | Finland:K-15 | New Zealand:R16 | Japan:R-15 | USA:R (certificate #43218) | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Bossier City, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Weinstein Company, The

Trivia:

The newspaper clipping handed to Edie reads "Dr. Kenneth B. Clement, ranaround naked chanting 'Banana Man.' narrowest margin in amayoral election. The final count withal precincts reporting, was Locher to Stokes.", over and over as filler space.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Andy Warhol and Edie attend the New York City premiere of Darling (1965) (which opened in that city in August 1965) a month after Andy is seen watching "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965) on TV), which didn't premiere on television until mid September 1965.

Quotes:

Edie Sedgwick: And what would I have to do in one of your movies?
Andy Warhol: Just be yourself.
Edie Sedgwick: Well which one?
James Townsend: You're going to be bankrupt soon.
Edie Sedgwick: James, you take life too seriously. How could I possibly be bankrupt? My grandfather invented the elevator.
James Townsend: Then you should be familiar with the concept of up and down.

Movie Connections:

References Poor Little Rich Girl (1965)

Soundtrack:

Prelude in F Major, BWV 928

Factory Girl Mass Produced

"The Factory" was the entire fifth floor studio of 231 East 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan serving as artistic sanctuary for Andy Warhol and the place for artsy types in the mid to late 60's. It's also where Edie Sedgwick spent most of her time as Warhol turned her into a starlet on his silver screen and as the original Paris Hilton she became famous for being famous, complete with trust fund and a nasty drug habit courtesy of Andy and his "Warhol Superstars".

Andy Warhol dove into most things artistic; shaping Pop Art, producing The Velvet Underground, and making his own films. Factory Girl took great advantage of the justification for using all manner of film-making formats cutting to point-of-view shots through grainy black and white 8 MM film camera viewfinders. Ask your grandparents... or SAIT instructor Philip Letourneau.

The cameras take you through a real life tragedy as Sienna Miller portrays a charming and naive Edie Sedgwick. Conflicted, she's seduced into fame by a chilling Guy Pearce as Warhol while a painfully dull Hayden Christensen as "The Musician" attempts to rescue her. Denying a relationship with Sedgwick, Bob Dylan's lawyers refused his inclusion in the film but he represents the possible redemption for the spiraling "Poor Little Rich Girl".

Overall, Factory Girl has trouble navigating it's plot shifting to and from Edie as the art that Andy creates, her personal journey, and the people around them both, all topped by a future Miss Sedgwick revealing the story to a psychiatrist in rehab.

There's a great movie in here somewhere but Factory Girl is not it.

C Matt Watterworth http://www.theweal.com