Factory Girl (2006)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

George Hickenlooper

Writers:

Captain Mauzner (screenplay)
Simon Monjack (story) ...

Release Date:

2 February 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Tagline:

When Andy met Edie, life imitated art.

Plot:

Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.

Plot Keywords:

Warhol | Folk Singer | Rise And Fall | Artist | Socialite

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
James Naughton	...	Fuzzy Sedgwick
Edward Herrmann	...	James Townsend
Illeana Douglas	...	Diana Vreeland
Mary Elizabeth Winstead	...	Ingrid Superstar
Don Novello	...	Mort Silvers

Also Known As:

Fábrica de sueños (Argentina) (DVD title) (Mexico) [es]
Edie (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Gynaika eidolo (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Hullócsillag (Hungary) [hu]
Uma Garota Irresistível (Brazil) [pt]

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive drug use, strong sexual content, nudity and language.

Runtime:

USA:99 min (unrated version) | USA:90 min | Argentina:99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Slovak | French

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:16 | UK:15 | USA:Unrated (DVD) | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Singapore:M18 | Italy:VM14 | Finland:K-15 | New Zealand:R16 | Japan:R-15 | USA:R (certificate #43218) | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Bossier City, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Weinstein Company, The

Trivia:

The movie opened in Germany on August 6th, which was a Wednesday. Normally in Germany movies open on a Thursday. That was in tribute to Andy Warhol, whose birthday is the 6th of August.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Edie's relationship to Nico is depicted incorrectly: in reality they were friends and Edie warned Nico about Warhol's behavior. Edie's dead was very sad for Nico.

Quotes:

Edie Sedgwick: I went to a party once, and there was a palm reader there and when she looked at my hand, she just froze. And I said to her "I know. My lifeline is broken. I know I won't live past thirty.

Movie Connections:

References Horse (1965)

Soundtrack:

Don't Bring Me Down

Utterly incompetent use of film and actors

The filmmakers have done the impossible: taken the story of Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's muse and the object of underground fascination for Forty YEARS and produced a movie so banal, predictable, and downright boring that the they must be applauded for even releasing it. I would be interested to hear if the screenwriters even read the bible for Edie -- George Plimpton's "Edie" -- that's how spectacularly misguided "Factory Girl" is. This movie makes "Swept Away" look like "The Godfather." Sienna Miller gamely resurrects the type of sex scene that thankfully died in 1975, but I guess these incompetetents must have thought it gave the movie a teeny bit of energy. I was embarrassed for everyone. Guy Pearce does a marvelous Warhol impersonation (not quite as good as David Bowie's in "Basquiat"), but wonderfully fascinating. Unfortunately, the numerous re-shoots the producers demanded reduce Andy Warhol -- ANDY WARHOL -- into an almost uninteresting opportunist. Edie of course lands in rehab and, well, I won't give away the ending, but the New York audience I saw it with roared with laughter and grumbled about the time they had wasted sitting in the theater. My lowest rating, period.