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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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George Hickenlooper
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Actors:
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Sienna Miller,
Jack Huston,
Don Novello,
Guy Pearce,
Hayden Christensen,
Jimmy Fallon,
Armin Amiri,
Tara Summers,
Mena Suvari,
Shawn Hatosy,
Beth Grant,
James Naughton,
Edward Herrmann,
Illeana Douglas,
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)201.5
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Plot Summary:
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A appealing, wealthy young party bit of skirt drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to Untrained York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungering unsophisticated artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a wonderful nova she explodes on the New York furore no more than to secure herself slowly be beaten engross on reality...
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Factory Girl
Sienna Miller gets stuck into her first big role as doomed Warhol plaything Edie Sedgwick
Finally, in 2007, we get to see Sienna Miller not in a magazine or on the arm of some pasty-faced pretty boy. And she's genuinely good. Read anything about this film and there'll always be mention of the fact that a woman famous for playing dress-up shouldn't find it much of a stretch to portray her 1960s druggy US equivalent. However flawed, Miller's performance is a lot more than that.
We meet Edie (Miller) in rehab in 1970. She has long brown hair and the kind of oatmeal complexion you only get from daily facial pumicing and never opening the curtains. She's talking to a counsellor. This device is used to give the narrative some kind of shape as we return to her serenely rel...
Guilty Pleasures
Warhol's Factory continues to fascinate and influence popular culture almost 40 years after its heyday, so, it comes as little surprise that one of its most glamorous inhabitants is the subject of this new film. Unfortunately, this is not an incisive study of the beautiful but needy socialite and actress, for that you would be better off reading the brilliant, 'Edie' by Jean Stein and watching 'Beauty No. 2' and 'Ciao Manhattan.'
'Factory Girl' suffers from a clichéd script and a tendency towards the melodramatic - indeed the entire film lacks the playfulness and intelligence of the films that came out of the Factory. Many of the performances are caricatures, impersonations of the characters that were so dynamic and exciting, and, if the...
Factory Girl
Finally, in 2007, we get to see Sienna Miller not in a journal or on the arm of some wan-faced beautiful old bean. And she's genuinely good. Skim anything about this film and there'll till the end of time be mention of the actuality that a woman famous for playing attire-up shouldn't find it much of a stretch to portray her 1960s druggy US interchangeable. However flawed, Miller's execution is a consignment more than that. We suffer Edie (Miller) in rehab in 1970. She has crave brown fraction and the courteous of oatmeal complexion you only manoeuvre from daily facial pumicing and on no occasion opening the curtains. She's talking to a counselor. This device is adapted to to consign the narrative some kind of shape as we reparation to her serenely relating the...
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