Ciao! Manhattan
by John Palmer (II)
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Actor: Brigid Berlin, Charlie Bacis, Jeff Briggs, Nell Bassett, Paul AmericaDirector: John Palmer (II)
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Plexifilm
DVD Reviews of Ciao! Manhattan
DVD Review: For True Edie Fans Only!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
First things first, this movie makes NO sense whatsoever. If you can ignore that little tidbit, you can make it through this movie with no problem. Having a backstory to this movie (how it was made and why it seems to span years...it does!) will also help in understanding it. Basically Ms Sedgwick started filming this flick when she was on her 16th minute of her 15 minutes of fame. After disappearing from New York (where filming started) due to drug abuse, the filmmakers tried to salvage footage and shoot around their star in hopes of finishing the "first aboveground underground film". According to the filmakers (who do a wonderful job of commentary on this dvd), they found Edie about three years later in California still drugged out and fried from shock treatments. Going against conventional logic, they began filming again but, this time with a new cast (notably Roger Vadim) and a new storyline (using that word loosely). Not wanting to waste the black and white footage shot of Edie and other Warhol Superstars some years earlier, they intergrated black and white footage with color footage shot with rehabing Edie. The story isn't suppose to be "The Edie Sedgwick Story" but it's based on her life and her constant obession with pills, her modeling days and herself. One might wonder why any self respecting person would put all the disgusting elements of their lives out there for the world to consume and willingly act them out as if they had no idea it was their life. The plotline is besotted with conspiarcy theories of aliens, flying saucers and (of course) drugs. The whole point of this movie is suppose to be that a drifter played by some dude with the worst Southern accent since Viven Leigh in "A Streetcar Named Desire", drifts into Susan's (Edie) life not knowing how much Edie's "very public freakout in the 1960s" has influenced his own devil may care attitude about life. Again, unless you know the backstory, none of this would be apparent. This film is basically Edie's slow death. The scenes that play out are erriely foretelling of Edie's tragic demise. Even though you know that Edie didn't stick around, you still hope that she'll clean up her act before the end of the movie. Sadly, she never does. She died during post production and the filmmakers tacked on an ending (I'm guessing she didn't die in the original ending) to tie up loose ends of a life that wasn't never tied in the first place. The finally flashback scene of Edie's actual wedding to a fellow rehab patient is shown followed by her real obit in the New York Post. A sad ending to a sad story.
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