“Factory Girl” imaginatively unfolds the
comet-like rise and fall of 60s “it girl” Edie Sedgwick, the
blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and
the tragedy of our celebrity obsessed culture. Sedgwick
appeared to be the quintessential American princess, with
her blue blood, her trust fund and her Harvard education,
not to mention her ethereal beauty and
vivacious charisma. But she was also a lost and fragile
little girl; and when she met up with counter-culture
anti-hero Andy Warhol, everything changed. Suddenly, Edie
found herself at the center of a Pop Art universe bursting
with sex, drugs, style and rock ‘n’ roll -- and a mad rush
for fame and fabulousness that was destined to spin out of
control.
Arriving into the chaos of mid-60s New York, Edie (Sienna
Miller) is taken under the wing of the famously deadpan
artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) who sees in her untamed
vulnerability the makings of an irresistible muse. Warhol
invites Edie into the wild world of The Factory, a former
downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian
paradise. Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists,
actors and misfits gather to create avant-garde movies
during the day and throw glam parties all night long. Edie
quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol’s movies, an
idol at The Factory and a media darling. She is on top of
the world when she falls in love with a larger-than-life
rock star (Hayden Christensen), the man known as “the voice
of a generation.” But when Edie becomes caught between
Warhol’s world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds
up rejected by both – and once again, set adrift in the
modern world.
©2006 Weinstein Co. All rights reserved.
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