Spoilt, rich, posh, vacuous and fame-obsessed - who better to play Edie Sedgwick? If she's acting or not, Miller is brilliant. Just a shame the film is so shallow too.
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03/30/07
Factory Girl (2007)
19 %
Reviews Counted: 109 Fresh: 21 Rotten:88 Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus:
Despite a dedicated performance by Sienna Miller, Factory Girl delves only superficially into her character, and ultimately fails to tell a coherent story.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Theatrical Release: 16-03-2007
Synopsis: Best known for playing muse to Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick was a dazzling young socialite who found herself at the apex of the pop art scene in 1960s New York. In FACTORY GIRL, Sienna Miller is the enchanting, enigmatic Edie, offering a moving characterization of the extremely troubled... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Jimmy Fallon, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: George Hickenlooper
Screenwriter: Captain Mauzner
Producer: Aaron Richard Golub, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Screenwriter: Captain Mauzner
Story: Simon Monjack
Screenwriter: Aaron Richard Golub
Screenwriter: Captain Mauzner
Producer: Aaron Richard Golub, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Screenwriter: Captain Mauzner
Story: Simon Monjack
Screenwriter: Aaron Richard Golub
Reviews
Edie Sedgwick's story is sad, but never appears important or interesting.
03/16/07
Top Critic
It’s Sienna Miller’s star that shines brightest in this heartbreaking cautionary tale.
03/16/07
Miller is a genuine surprise as the damaged star. But the film leaves her very much as it finds her: a clueless naive.
03/16/07
Top Critic
Sienna Miller brings bright eyes and shapeshifting commitment to a script that doesn't always deserve it.
03/16/07
Sienna Miller guarantees herself a bit more than 15 minutes with a strong performance in an otherwise dazed and confused film.
03/16/07
Top Critic
Kudos to Miller for her touching portrayal of a doomed icon. A shame the film’s as substantial as one of Warhol’s silver flotations.
03/16/07
Top Critic
In all it's an unconvincing portrait, and as the Dylan clone says, "Empty, like one of those cans of soup..."
03/16/07
Top Critic
Sienna Miller is perfectly cast but the script barely scratches the surface and you never really get inside any of the characters.
03/15/07
One wonders whether the documentary format would have better served the material than this ill-focused drama. Since real-life family and observers chime in over the end credits, perhaps the filmmakers were thinking the same thing.
03/14/07
Top Critic
A brave bid to recreate a modern American tragedy, with a revelatory turn by its lead actress.
03/13/07
Top Critic
A fascinating public figure is reduced to an uninteresting, unlikeable cliche in this stylish but only fitfully entertaining biopic.
02/03/07
Summing up a complex human being in two hours is like an MTV spot about Nelson Mandela cut to a Kanye West track. We don't really get to know Sedgwick at all.
05/02/08
As a bio-pic, Factory Girl is limited, but as a snapshot of Sedgwick and Warhol's fiery relationship, there is much to fascinate us.
08/11/07
Factory Girl is an effective evocation of a particular slice of recent history. The film benefits from Miller's turn as Edie, an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink performance that takes the poor girl from the heights and highs of fame to the depths and doom
06/25/07
As a biography of Edie Sedgwick, it's pretty near worthless, but as an evocation of both the glamour and the horror of the Factory, it's as seductive as Andy himself.
05/07/07
les écrits de Mauzner n'arrivent malheureusement pas à rendre justice, voire même à ajouter le moindre commentaire critique, à leur source d'inspiration
04/20/07
For some real insight into the sad demise of "Susan Superstar" read Jean Stein's eye-opening Edie: American Girl, or rent Ciao! Manhattan instead.
03/03/07
Had the cast and promise to be so much better than what finally ended up on screen.
03/02/07
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