Just perfect...

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Poor little rich girl Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) has a doom outlook on her life. She leaves Cambridge Art School with her 'girlfriend' Chuck (Jimmy Fallon) to go to NYC in 1965. Her wealth soon attracts the attention of Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce). He brings her into the world of the Factory where she meets many personalities like musician Billy Quinn (Hayden Christensen).This is style over substance. Many would say the same thing about the real Andy Warhol. There isn't anything wrong with the performances. In fact, Sienna Miller is great. In the end, there is nothing compelling in her story or at least, the movie fails to make it compelling. I don't care about the character and I don't care what happens to her.

When I heard of this movie, I thought, "Oh good! Edie and Andy Warhol fans will be ecstatic, and kids who've never heard of either will be mesmerized by Edie's tragic beauty and story." Wrong. "Factory Girl" is the clever title for a shamefully Hollywood depiction of the life and times of Edith M. Sedgwick during her time as a Warhol superstar, narrated occasionally by post-drugs, post-Warhol Edie at a psychiatric hospital in 1971. As many other reviews have pointed out, Sienna Miller has been praised as looking like "a twin of Edie." Wrong, again. It is understandable that no one can exactly recreate Edie's quasi-androgynous, fluid, gamine and distinctly individual dark beauty, but Miller looks like a fast Halloween knockoff of Edie. Not even Edie, more like a cheap version of an American Twiggy. And the personality? Not even close. Edie is presented as an innocent, impressionable, unintelligent and unsophisticated child who is used and abused by Warhol, who is bizarrely cruel and childish, though Guy Pearce as Warhol is a pretty believable physical facsimile of the Pop artist. But back to Edie, who in reality, came from a very wealthy and high-society family, was an artist in her own right, and was received immensely well by the Factory crowd for her poise, intelligence, and actress/director versatility. She was not only a muse for Warhol, but a confidante and peer. The most confusing part of this already false depiction of Edie, though, is the Bob Dylan character/romance. Yes, it's true that Edie had something of a crush on Dylan for a period of time, ultimately leading to her break with the Warhol camp for Dylan's attention, claiming to be making a movie with him. But this was a very brief period in Edie's life, leaving him certainly not "the biggest mistake" of her life. She had a much more of a strong affair with Bob Neuwirth, Dylan's right hand man. It's plain to see why the film went in this direction; Edie's life was too messy and too realistically human for Hollywood, and a central romance was easy to portray. Hayden Christensen is pretty pathetic as "Billy Quinn," anyway.So, for all potential Edie/Warhol fans who are looking to find out more about either: don't watch this movie looking for truth. It's nothing but Hollywood debris based on early 60's New York. Watch "Ciao! Manhattan," the original Warhol films, look on Tumblr for the "Only Edie Sedgwick" account, and do your own otherwise research. Just don't rely on this movie.

I am really sad to see the known name actors that chose to be involved in this terrible and quite frankly offencive piece of film-making. I have no side as to what is fact or fiction in this story, nor do I have any favouritism at all regarding any of the real life characters portrayed. However I have never felt so manipulated by a director/writers after watching a film. It is kind of like watching a film about how good drugs are for you, as made by the very people who sell them, and without them even making an attempt to be honest about anything at all. This film is so one sided, and clearly overly tries to make one character an innocent victim, and others the total reason for her entire downfall. Basically every aspect of the film also seems to be filled with corner cutting, nothing in the film is well developed at all. It is a complete joke. The really terrible thing about it all is that the film tries to come across as if it did really happen this way. However anyone who has ever even looked at more than a few years honestly in their entire lives, knows that nothing in real life resembles this total sham. I don't know what the whole truth is in terms of the events in this film. However any intelligent person wouldn't hesitate to wager their entire wealth (big or small), that this is not even nearly truth. This is a hateful film at it's core, and one of pure finger pointing and bitterness rather than any artistic observation or study at all. The director and writers should be sentenced to at least 5 years hard labour for this trash, where they can perhaps drop their ridiculousness and actually learn something about honesty and real life. The only reason I didn't give this film a bottom of the barrel rating is because Guy Pearce is really quite brilliant in it. The lone real bright spot in my view. My personal message to the director/writers who are obviously the most responsible for how this film comes across - We all make mistakes. Quit being part of the problem and be part of the solution towards embracing our reality. Then, and only then can we as a species truly move together in a positive direction. Finger pointing and throwing stones only equals broken bones and eventually the extinction of the entire human race. Grow the **** up!!2/10

Directed by George Hickenlooper this 2006 film details the tragically short life of glamorous actress Edie Sedgwick.As well as looking at her involvement with the legendary Andy Warhol.It's the early 1960's and beautiful,stylish rich girl Edie Sedgwick(Sienna Miller)is introduced to pop art filmmaker Andy Warhol(Guy Pearce),the two become friends and she inspires him to make some of his best remembered underground films including Vinyl.Sienna plays Edie as a mix of Audrey Hepburn and Marylin Monroe.She's shy,natural and very stylish combing the hip quality of the sixties with the elegance of the past decade.We see her mutually dependent relationship with Andy become the most important thing in both their lives and see how Andy's jealousy eventually destroys it.Edie begins a passionate relationship with a singer who is bears quite a resemblance to Bob Dillon(Hayden Christensen)this distresses Andy who gradually shuts her out of his life.