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List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $15.99 You Save: $3.96 Features • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 02 February, 2007 DVD Release : 17 July, 2007 |
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Factory Girl (Unrated) description 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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| This film was disappointing in every aspect. The film was loosely based on Edie's life, a poor outline. I recommend the Jean Stein/George Plimpton book instead. The movie glosses over Edie's troubled family and past and simply places all blame for her destruction on Warhol and the boyfriend who was supposed to be Dylan, (a really poor represenation of Dylan at that). According to the Stein book, Edie's grand love affair was with Bob Neuwirth. Seems the movie got the two Bobs mixed up. That Edie was naive and not already quite sophisticated at the time is also laughable. The movie flubs Edie relationship with Chuck Wein as well. I am not sure who that actor was trying to portray. A prep school boy? That was not Chuck Wein, and it certainly wasn't Edie either. The movie savages the Warhol movies Edie stars in. I suggest again, that anyone who is interested in the real Edie try to find a viewing because she is quite compelling, hypnotizing really. And apparently much of the credit for those movies went to the Chuck Wein/Edie collaboration. Sienna Miller's resemblance to Edie is superficial. Her portrayal is somehow flat. She doesn't have Edie's fluttery ethereal Venus in Furs quality. Instead she comes off campy and mulish. The accent is botched. From what I can see Edie changed tones and accents, as fast as could change her facial expressions. Of course the stupid dialogue doesn't help, either. | |
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