Factory Girl (2006)



Factory Girl (2006)
When Andy met Edie, life imitated art.

A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality...

Genre(s): Biography, Drama
Runtime: 99 minutes
Rating: 6.1/10 (7,161 votes)
Release Date: 29 December 2006
Country: USA
Languages: English, Slovak, French
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital
MPAA: Rated R for pervasive drug use, strong sexual content, nudity and language.

Director(s): George Hickenlooper



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Producer(s):
Kimberly C. Anderson - producer
Morris Bart - producer
Brigid Berlin - associate producer
Richie Berlin - associate producer
Brian Campbell - line producer: additional photography, Toronto
James Cox - associate producer
Katie Crory - associate producer
Richard Dupont - associate producer
Robert Dupont - associate producer
Chantel Forest - associate producer
Carla Gardini - co-executive producer
Aaron Richard Golub - producer
Alissa M. Kantrow - co-executive producer
Michelle Krumm - co-executive producer
Matt Landon - co-executive producer (as Matthew Landon)
Gerard Malanga - associate producer
Boris Malden - co-executive producer
Captain Mauzner - co-producer
Simon Monjack - executive producer
Sarah Nunez - associate producer
Malcolm Petal - producer
Mikey Post - associate producer (as Michael Post)
Laura D. Smith - associate producer (as Laura Smith)
Bob Weinstein - executive producer
Harvey Weinstein - executive producer
Holly Wiersma - producer
Bob Yari - executive producer

Writer(s):
Captain Mauzner - (screenplay)
Simon Monjack - (story) and
Aaron Richard Golub - (story) and
Captain Mauzner - (story)

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

Music: Ed Shearmur

2 Responses to “Factory Girl (2006)”

  1. MARIO GAUCI (marrod@melita.com) Says:
    June 4th, 2008

    The legendarily enigmatic Andy Warhol may have been thinking oftroubled socialite Edie Sedgwick when he coined the phrase “15 minutesof fame”. In fact, it was Warhol himself who transformed the shy artstudent into America’s “It” Girl of 1965 and his own notoriouslyliberal Factory’s first veritable “superstar” in a series ofartistically dubious films – of which I’ve only personally watched thefirst, VINYL (1965), Warhol’s idiosyncratic version of Anthony Burgess’“A Clockwork Orange”. Even so, Sedgwick was as much a boost to thecareer of the obscure “genius” that was Warhol as he was to her ownadvancement in high society and the art crowd when New York City washer oyster for a while.

    She met and fell in love with Bob Dylan who was just about to goelectric at the time but his resentment of Warhol (apparently the“Napoleon in rags” in Dylan’s rock anthem of the era, “Like A RollingStone”) eventually drove them apart. Ironically, Sedgwick’s ownshort-term flirting with Dylan and his snobbish entourage created arift between her and Warhol which worsened into a falling out in publicover money (oil tycoon heiress Sedgwick diluted her wealthy income onthe countless hangers-on of the Factory) and subsequent estrangement.Coming from a family with a history of physical abuse, mental illnessand suicide and given her own fragile countenance, it ought not tosurprise anybody to learn of her gradual descent into drug dependencyand prostitution, stretches in sanatoriums, various drug busts and ODs– culminating in her “accidental” death from an acute overdose ofprescription medicine in late 1971 at the tender age of 28…

    It was inevitable that a film would eventually be made about EdieSedgwick and the end result is worth watching if hardly exhaustive ofits fascinating subject and milieu: upfront are the remarkableperformances of Sienna Miller (as Edie) and Guy Pearce (as Warhol) whotruly inhabit their complex personalities on camera; less successfulare Hayden Christensen’s stint as an angry Bob Dylan and the film’sapparent fictionalization of their consummated relationship. In fact,the film chooses to set up this doomed love affair at its center and,in so doing, (perhaps mercifully) skimps on Edie’s latter-day failuresand humiliations. Also, although I can understand that the music rightsmay not have been forthcoming to the film-makers, I was disappointed bythe fact that we are supposed to be following a biopic of a girl who,for better or worse, inspired some great songs (including two of my ownpersonal favorites) – Dylan’s afore-mentioned “Like A Rolling Stone”and The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” – and yet we never get tohear them on the soundtrack at any time during the film. Ironicallyenough, the film’s theatrical trailer did feature David Bowie’s “LifeOn Mars?” and the significance of that, in hindsight, is three-fold:that song is included in Bowie’s “Hunky Dory” album which was releasedin 1971 (the year of Sedgwick’s death); the same album also includesconsecutively three songs which were Bowie’s musical tributes to AndyWarhol, Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground; and Bowie himself wouldlater portray Warhol on screen in Julian Schnabel’s BASQUIAT (1996)!!

    Incidentally, I currently have in my unwatched VHS pile the D.A.Pennebaker film of Dylan’s U.K. tour of 1965, DON’T LOOK BACK (1967) –at which Edie Sedgwick was present but (perhaps unsurprisingly giventhat Dylan was married to somebody else by the time of its release)does not appear in the finished film – and THE VELVET UNDERGROUND ANDNICO (1966), Andy Warhol’s own experimental film of a performance bythe iconic band given at the Factory itself. However, time constraintsbrought upon by changes in my working schedule has, for the foreseeablefuture, forced me to trim down my film viewing to the bare essentialsor necessities…so, I had to regrettably forego of this opportunity tofinally give these two intriguing cinematic/musical documents a spin…

  2. kellycisco Says:
    June 8th, 2008

    I literally had a tissue box in hand while watching this movie. Edie'scharacter is portrayed truthfully, and in some parts brutally honest.It is in that that the audience can connect with her, because she isreal. The way the movie is written gives it an artistic Andy Warholfeel while depicting Edie as the "prop" of this awful charade. Yourheart can only open up to her as you go with her on her roller coasterride of a life, at first drifting through a dream then twisting througha nightmare. The conclusion of the film is by far deal sealer on itbeing in my top 10 favorites. It leaves you feeling empty and very verysad, it takes a stone not to cry. But that emptiness leaves with awhole new fascination of this forgotten character. That is what makes amovie great, if you can draw the audience in and keep them begging formore even when the finale has passed…which is exactly what FactoryGirl does. The epitome of perfection in dramatic films.

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