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  Average Rating for Factory Girl [2007] - 2 out of 5

  
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• Factory Girl [2007]

  Barnaby Walter 03 September 2008

  

  So much controversy, so much speculation. This film did cause a stir when The Weinstein Company released it last year. In a fictionalised version of the relationship between gay artist Any Warhol and life lover Edie Sedgwick, Director George Hickenlooper shows how the fast rise to fame can have splintering effects. Controversy debates aside, Sienna Miller gives an amazingly touching performance as the socialite doomed to live a life that craved fame and fortune greater than oxygen and health. In Millers eyes we see pain, desire and enjoyment in one kaleidoscope of emotion. This type of top class acting comes in useful when playing such a complex character such as Edie, helping the viewer befriend her as the film goes on. There is no glass division between the audience and characters in this film. We see them in raw clarity. All parts of Edie"s life are handled brilliantly, including her sexual relationship with the mysterious Mr. Billy Quinn (we have reached the controversy) and her harrowingly portrayed heroin addiction (that's the speculation part). Hayden Christensen is bland and unbelievable as Quinn, the harmonica tooting musician, but this is the film's one and only fault, a fault that does little damage to an already glittering array of talent. The bitter sweet ending is perfectly balanced and poignantly acted (another talent of Miller), and once viewed remains etched on your mind. The whole film requires to be viewed more than once, if not only to see the many skills of Sienna, but also to marvel at Guy Pearce's controlled but startling turn as the unpredictable Andy Warhol.

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.  The 60's biographical story of Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the beautiful, young, wealthy Radcliffe dropout, with a history of men tal illness, who Warhol promises to make a star.