Factory Girl (Unrated)

Factory Girl (Unrated)
by George Hickenlooper

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Actor: Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jack Huston, Jimmy Fallon, Sienna Miller
Director: 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: Ciao, Edie!
Summary: 5 Stars

Andy Warhol even in passing remains enigmatic. Was he a pop art visionary or an artistic charlatan? Probably a little of both. If there wasn't some merit to his work we wouldn't still be talking about him or portraying him in films. What I found interesting about "Factory Girl" is that they contrast Warhol's artistry with that of a Dylanesque character and the result isn't flattering. One would almost think that the makers of "Factory Girl" are villifying Warhol and there may be an element of truth there. Thrown into the mix is socialite Edie Sedgwick whose physical beauty masks a wounded psyche. Sedgwick, along with Marilyn Monroe, served as a muse for Warhol until her chemical addiction made her dispensible. This film could very easily have fallen into self-parody if it weren't for some terrific performances by the film's leads. Guy Pearce is absolutely stupendous as Warhol capturing his weaknesses and contradictions for what amounts to an ultimately sensitive portrayal. He's equalled by Sienna Miller as Edie who injects poignancy to her ultimately doomed character. Hayden Christensen avoids cliche in his folksinger role which makes you wonder why Dylan wouldn't lend his name to the film even if his part in the proceedings is probably speculative. The Factory didn't produce much other than some drug habits. It's mere existence, though, continues to fascinate.

DVD Review: I Can't Get Enough Distance ....
Summary: 3 Stars

... to evaluate this film as a piece of cinema produced, directed, acted and marketed commercially. I'll have to give it:

5 stars for the acting of Guy Pearce in the role of Andy Warhol. Better than Hoffman as Capote, better than Penn as Milk. Warhol was the creepiest narcissist that ever lived, and Pearce captures every loathsome mannerism. More than that, he exposes Warhol's coy cruelty and voyeuristic sadism for what they were, an accidental confluence of lustrous perversity with perverse times.

4 stars for the acting of Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick--and everyone else except Hayden Christensen as Bob Dylan. Miller does well enough with Sedgwick's tragic weaknesses but gives little impression of what might have made such a person compelling and alluring.

3 stars for the sociological/historical portrayal of the Warhol "factory" and of the cultural scene in New York and America at large in the 1960s. The 24-7 bizarre goings-on, through which Warhol wafted like a lobotomized Intelligent Designer, are portrayed accurately, i.e. luridly, enough, but the sporadic efforts to give Warholia any broader context -- a few street scenes, a glance at events on TV -- are woefully insufficient. All that weirdness wasn't just drug-induced, much as it was drug-fueled. Is the lack of context automatically a flaw? I suppose not, but it made the sorry life of Edie Sedgwick seem trivial and banal. I'm not entirely impartial, however. I had a close friend, a college classmate, who was chewed up and destroyed - murdered, in fact - by the Warhol film 'industry'.

2 stars for the script, if there was one. The timing was never quite right. Some scenes seemed bloated, some were sketchy. Perhaps the effect was intentional, a sloppy improvisation approximating the cloying vacuity of Warhol's own films. But here's the rub: Hollywood can't simulate an independent film, just as money can't buy true squalor.

1 star for the acting of Hayden Christensen as Bob Dylan, not only because he didn't resemble Dylan in style or substance but also because he was dismally implausible as any kind of human being. Besides, the 'true story' aspect of this production was sacrificed opportunistically; it made a better marketing package to focus on Dylan as Edie's lover, but in fact no biggie occurred between them, according to mutual friends. One of Dylan's entourage was the real 'intruder' in the Warhol menage.

I had a choice of films... six or seven vampire flicks, and a slew of celebrity rise-and-falls all strung out on lines of drug abuse. I grabbed this one out of curiosity to see how Warhol would be depicted. I guess I got what I was looking for, but it wasn't either entertainment or insight.

DVD Review: HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!
Summary: 1 Stars

Even if you know nothing about the real Edie Sedgwick, this film is a hokey, cornball embarrassment that is difficult to decide whether the writing or directing is worse. If you DO know anything about the real girl or the world she lived in, you'll know this film had NOTHING to do with the real Edie, Andy, their relationship, her relationship with anyone, or anything truthful whatsoever! Where Miller does her Cockney best to play the time bomb Edie, nearly everyone else in the cast has no idea what they're doing.

To wrap it up, they forgot the little scar on her nose which was crucial to her look and character having almost died in the accident which caused it, she never had an affair with Bob Dylan, and she did NOT get raped in Beauty number 2! Shame on Hickenlooper, Weinstein and nearly everyone involved.

DVD Review: Poor little rich girl. A thin movie.
Summary: 2 Stars

I'm not sure Edie Sedgwick ever was well known beyond the confines of the New York underground art scene. If someone is truly a celebrity you really don't have to do your homework. It was said she was Andy Worhol's muse. More like his pigeon. She would do anything to be in his scene & was sucessful in that, becoming for a time, the "It" girl. She financed his Factory movie studio & collection of syncophants & oddball neurotics. She was rich & when she was broke & addicted, Warhol simply discarded her. She was breathtakingly beautiful as is Sienna Miller the actress who portrayed her. But that is a rather common commodity. If Edie had talent as an actress, we'll never know. Apparently she was the inspiration for the Warhol quote: "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." So she was. In the end she died like too many of the young, beautiful & stupid, by an overdose of heroin. So sad. Not very original, but dead nontheless.

DVD Review: Like A Rolling Stone
Summary: 4 Stars

"You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it aint no good
You shouldnt let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat
Aint it hard when you discover that
He really wasnt where its at
After he took from you everything he could steal."
Bob Dylan 'like A Rolling Stone'

Edie Sedgwick was an icon of her time in the 60's. She was a wealthy young woman from California who went to art school in Cambridge. She was always a little removed from others- dancing to her own drummer. She and a friend left school for NYC to find their fortunes and way in life. Unfortunatley for Edie, played by Sienna Miller, she ran into Andy Warhol and her life became that of someone paying the piper. Andy as portrayed by Guy Pearce was the art noveau artist who reveled in tomato soup cans. He was a user of people and had some sort of gravitas that drew in the beautiful ones. The 60's were ripe for drugs and rock n' roll. Edie became the 'It' girl, and along with Andy they made Manhattan their own.

It was said that Dylan had a 'thing' with Edie which he denies but there is no doubt that the song 'Like A Rolling Stone' was written with Edie in mind. He is portrayed in the film as 'the musician' because Mr Dylan threatened to sue. It is known that Edie did have a short affair with a friend of Mr Dylan. Much of Edie's unstability was due to her family. Incest and apparent verbal abuse. Two of Edie's brothers killed themselves. With the snippet we see of the famiy , one can understand the misery in that family. Edie and two of her brothers were sent to a mental facility for speaking against their father. Edie had a life of being drugged from a young age. Used and abused seemed to be the theme of her life.

Edie appeared to be a smart young woman who only wanted to learn her art and to be loved. She is villified by some as a young woman of wealth who frittered her life away. Much of the film is spellbinding and some is not. It is a sad life and a sad film. This was not the 60's generation that I remembered, but it was the one that Edie lived.

Recommended. prisrob 03-16-09

Layer Cake (Full Screen Edition)

A Slipping Down Life

Edie Sedgwick - Sienna Miller
Andy Warhol - Guy Pearce
Musician - Hayden Christensen
Chuck Wein - Jimmy Fallon
Richie Berlin - Mena Suvari
Syd Pepperman - Shawn Hatosy
Diana Vreeland - Ileana Douglas
Gerard Malanga - Jack Houston
Julia Warhol - Beth Grant
Fuzzy Sedgwick - James Naughton

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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