Factory Girl (Unrated)
by George Hickenlooper
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Actor: Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jack Huston, Jimmy Fallon, Sienna MillerDirector: George Hickenlooper
Cinematographer: Michael Grady
Editor: Dana E. Glauberman
Editor: Michael Levine
Producer: Simon Monjack
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Bob Yari
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Slovak (Original Language)
Format: NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: The Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of Factory Girl (Unrated)
DVD Review: Edie Deserves Better
Summary: 2 Stars
First off, Sienna Miller gives it a college try but she's too old for the part. For most of the arc of the story in this film, Edie's supposed to be 19-25. No way is Sienna believable as an ingenue at this point. She's got her accent down but lacks the luminosity and charm of the singular Mz. Sedgwick. Instead, she comes off as annoying.
Granted, to recreate Edie and the era in which she reigned would be an extremely tall order for any film maker. Unfortunately, their efforts fall far short here.
Siouxie, Brooklyn
DVD Review: Underrated Gem
Summary: 4 Stars
This production is an underrated gem. Guy Pearce is "over-the-top" as Andy Warhol, while Sienna Miller IS Edie Sedgwick, the "Factory Girl." See this movie first, then buy "Ciao! Manhattan" to complete your collection. DVD Review: Poorly Acted, Poorly Executed Film
Summary: 2 Stars
Factory Girl is a poorly executed, poorly acted film about poor little rich girl Edie Sedgwick. The socialite/drug addict who starred in Warhol films and made a celebrity splash is portrayed by Sienna Miller, who simply does not do justice to the tragic socialite. Factory Girl is a biographical film and as such is obligated to adhere to some semblance of "what was" or "how it happened". In this film, it does neither.
Edie Sedgwick's rise to celebrity was due to her charism and waiflike charm that drew people to her. Miller acted as if she used Liza Minelli as her role model! The film viewer is left confused as to why anyone would want Edie Sedgwick in their life--she is portrayed as shallow, boring,and without an ounce of sexuality, despite the R rating for nudity.
Overall, the film doesn't add up. Don't waste your money on this one.
DVD Review: (2.5 STARS) Good Acting, But Empty Overall
Summary: 3 Stars
"Factory Girl" is not a terrible film. It is just strange. The film is supposed to be about Edie Sedgwick, a college dropout-turned-Andy Warhol's muse in the early 1960s, but what you remember after watching her tragic life story is not anything about her; it is Guy Pearce's chilling portrait of Andy Warhol as self-absorbed artist. For all Sienna Miller's strong acting as troubled Edie, "Factory Girl" does not get under the skin of the character for whom it has been made. It is as if Warhol is taking over her story.
So many (possible) references to her in pop culture (especially music) suggest she has been still influential as cultural icon long after her early death, but George Hickenlooper's film never gets deeper than the top layer of the topic it deals with, going down the familiar course. Her romance with the "Musician" (Hayden Christensen impersonating Bob Dylan) leaves no impression on us. neither the supports from Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy, Edward Herrmann, Illeana Douglas and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
But I may be too harsh. Maybe her life story was really as familiar as anyone else's. If the film's Warhol seems taking over the story of Edie, maybe it is because that's exactly what happened to her. (One of the characters refers to him as a "blood-sucking vampire.") Also, the film is filled with blurred images, split screen and other superficial camera works that only detract us from the purpose of the film: showing Edie as a person.
In one scene of the film the "Musician" refers to the "empty" nature of Warhol's painting. Intentional or unintentional, I don't know, but "Factory Girl" sometimes makes us feel the same way.
DVD Review: Forget the press, the girl CAN act!
Summary: 3 Stars
I hated Sienna Miller in Layer Cake. She pranced around in her underwear a lot of the time. She does the same in this too, there are quite a few scenes where Edie seems to live in her underwear, but there's almost a certain innocence to it somehow.
Sienna Miller is of course more well known for her personal life these days, than her film career, and people seem to forget that. This is actually the first film I've seen of hers since Layer Cake, and was surprised when she was actually really good. It shows a great actor when you forget who they really are, they manage to become that character. It would have been especially hard to become such a tortured character like Edie Sedgewick was.
The film is basically centred around Edie's short life. Interspersed with scenes of Edie being interviewed when she's in rehab I think? Those scenes were the only parts I didn't like, as it didn't seem to add anything to the movie.
Guy Pearce who plays Andy Warhol in this, was the weirdest character. He actually gave me the shivers watching him on screen. I don't really know anything about Andy Warhol (or Edie Sedgewick for that matter) and the apparent similarities between Hayden Christensen's character and Bob Dylan I didn't notice. Really, this was a blind impulse buy.
For anyone who wasn't from the era this movie was based in, like me, won't really know the music. It didn't really do anything for me, add to the movie or anything. The fashion was cool, but I've seen better. It didn't really scream sixties if you know what I mean?
Overall, Factory Girl was a good little movie, not too long, not too short, quite sad towards the end, and with a couple of interesting features. But I finished it feeling I hadn't really found out anything about Edie Sedgewick. It skimmed over the top of her life, and left me feeling a bit empty afterwards.
Description of Factory Girl (Unrated)
(Drama) "Factory Girl" tells the story of the rise and fall of the original "IT GIRL" Edie Sedgwick. When Edie meets famed artist Andy Warhol, she is thrust into a life of glamour, parties and ultimately.tragedy.The lovely face of Sienna Miller fills in for luminous but tragic 1960s icon Edie Sedgwick, the child of wealth and privilege who found brief delight but eventual destruction in the fabled Factory of Pop artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce). Factory Girl begins with Sedgwick as a naive art student who comes to New York City seeking freedom from her troubled family, just as Warhol was surrounding himself with oddballs, sycophants, and drug addicts. The eager girl briefly becomes Warhol's favorite and the center of the city's attention, but when she falls into an affair with 'The Musician' (the only slightly ambiguous depiction of a certain nasal-voiced rock star, played by Hayden Christensen, Shattered Glass), Warhol is stricken with jealousy. Factory Girl wants to paint Warhol as the villain in this story of innocence corrupted, but the casting undercuts the movie's moral. Miller, though pretty and capable, never takes us under Sedgwick's skin, and Christensen's performance is one-note and clumsy. But Pearce's Warhol fascinates; it's a sneaky, stealthy performance, predatory yet passive, hiding a million neuroses beneath a cunningly vapid facade. Whenever Pearce is on-screen, Factory Girl sparkles; when he's not--despite abundant views of Miller's and Christensen's attractive naked flesh in the "uncut unrated" version--the movie loses its fizz. Also featuring Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Jimmy Fallon (Fever Pitch), and Illeana Douglas (Grace of My Heart). --Bret Fetzer
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