Purely Joyful Movie!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I caught this film some time ago, and instantly liked it. Even more so upon re-watch. As far as I can see it's somewhat divisive film, people either love it or look down upon it. Most of the resentment seem to come from the inaccurate portrayal of Sedgwick's life and the circle in which she moved....? I can't place a judgment in this respect cause I don't know a thing about this rich socialite and Warhol's one time muse. But, does it really matter?I went in blind and oblivious to the facts and approached the film on its own right, not as biography by numbers. I thought it shone the light on fame and the burden it inflicts upon the people "struck" by it. Whether it's constructed, deliberately sought or accidental, fame's bound to change people and make them feel as if they'd fallen from grace, once its gone.Not that I'm speaking from experience. Something else caught my attention and held the interest. Factory girl gave me a chance to take a peek at the fascinating, complicated, superficial, fabulous and cruel world of pop culture, art, its royalties and its victims. Even rich people cry, right, and though many instances from this dramatized biography might speak ill of everyone involved, I absolutely felt it offers a good look at that infamous gray area between top and bottom of society.Guy Pearce is phenomenal, multidimensional as Warhol and Sienna Miller is fragile, quirky, chic and beautiful enough to fit the role perfectly. I thought the dynamics between the two carried the whole film, with occasional decent supportive roles. Can't sing Pearce enough praise, actually, he is absolutely perfect here, detached, infantile, brilliant, fake, extravagant, self-constructed, jealous and ultimately flawed human being, all at once. I can see Miller's role bit unflattering, cause people don't tend to empathize with spoiled, entitled rich kids. But she brought another dimension to her Edie Segwick, that made me feel for her with all her shortcomings. Easily impressionable, with vastly superficial life style; she does have that freshness of youth and often comes off as naive bundle of emotions. Miller/Sedgwick carries these qualities around constantly throughout the film, she's more childlike than anything else, really.But, there's sort of ménage à trois introduced to the story, when quite self- centered and narcissistic musician Billy Quinn enters Edie's life. Playing hard to get, nonconformist young singer/songwriter marks the downfall of Sedgwick/Warhol friendship and collaboration, really wanting nothing more but a fling, and to settle down nicely with successful career and an uptown girl on his side, eventually.There's really no room for question who's used whom, although it might spring to mind. Next project awaits and next inspiration to turn to...I guess that's show biz for you, and this is one, less ordinary life story. Well made, rich with characters Factory Girl is touching film and an emotional ride.

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.

I see that a lot of people have watched this film and jumped straight on the computer to analyse every second of it and criticise every factual inaccuracy.That is part of what makes this film so great in my eyes.Everybody is of course entitled to their opinion of it and not everybody is going to like it. Personally I loved the film; not for its plot or the acting or the way in portrayed the life of Warhol and Sedgwick. I loved it because of the way it was constructed and how it comes together as a final article.In my eyes it is a film how films should be. It is itself a piece of art. In this case it just so happens to be based on true events of life imitating art.The dialogue is excellent and the acting has the same extravagance as the characters the film portrays.I love that so many people have such strong reactions to this film and that most of the reviews you will see are either 1 star or 10 stars. The fact that a film can evoke this emotion from people is nothing short of amazing, it's not made for the people to love it. It's made for the sake of making an excellent artistic film.I believe that by the simple fact of this reaction to it, the film has accomplished everything that it set out to do and Mr. Hickenlooper should feel proud. Wes Anderson fans will most likely understand and love this.

I'm sorry but this movie is actually a pretty bad movie. The performances are awful, except for Guy Pierce, even though the best Warholl I've seen in a movie was David Bowie in Basquiat. The problem of the movie is that it paints a pretty dull portrait of Eddie Sedwick. You actually stop caring for the girl like at the first half an hour of the movie. I believe the movie satanizes a lot of characters as well as painstakingly using pretty crappy covers for ambiance music.Somebody please explain me why the HELL does Hayden Christensen still get acting jobs? He is one of the worst actors I've ever seen in my life and his Dylan impression (Please nobody tell me it's a Dylanesque performance or a Dylan like character, it clearly is Bob Dylan people!!)is absolutely awful, no wonder Dylan wanted to sue the production. Siena Miller isn't bad, but just doesn't do it for me.The movie is also a bit slow paced in scenes where it really shouldn't be slow paced and actually manages to turn an interesting subject like the factory and its different characters boring. The Sedwick interviews feel totally out of place and don't go with the movie. I believe Sedwick is a much more interesting character, but this movie does nothing to help her.