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)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:20
Rotten:90
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Despite a dedicated performance by Sienna Miller, Factory Girl delves only superficially into her character, and ultimately fails to tell a coherent story.
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... [More]
Starring: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon
Director: George Hickenlooper
Reviews for Factory Girl
Edie Sedgwick's story is sad, but never appears important or interesting.
03/16/07
Top CriticIt’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 CriticSienna 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 CriticKudos 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 CriticThere's no real need for Factory Girl; just go pick up that copy of Heat.
03/16/07
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 CriticSienna 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 CriticA brave bid to recreate a modern American tragedy, with a revelatory turn by its lead actress.
03/13/07
Top CriticA fascinating public figure is reduced to an uninteresting, unlikeable cliche in this stylish but only fitfully entertaining biopic.
02/03/07
Far less insight than the flattest of E! True Hollywood Story segments
08/27/09
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04/23/09
In Factory Girl, a jumbled account of the short life and photogenic hard times of the first Andy Warhol superstar, Edie Sedgwick, Sienna Miller makes Sedgwick into an archetypal over-confident blond with a mannered young Kathleen Turner croak.
11/06/08
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
True story of drugs and sex is for adults only.
10/22/07
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
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