Not a great movie, but absolutely essential viewing.
Ciao! Manhattan (1972)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:6
Rotten:4
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Ostensibly a documentary about Edy Sedgwick, the iconic face of Andy Warhol's Factory, CIAO! MANHATTAN is actually a scripted drama in which all the actors play themselves. Warhol's films are often... Ostensibly a documentary about Edy Sedgwick, the iconic face of Andy Warhol's Factory, CIAO! MANHATTAN is actually a scripted drama in which all the actors play themselves. Warhol's films are often characterized by an immediacy that creates a sense of voyeurism for the viewer. However, this film has become a legitimate profile of ephemeral starlet Edy Sedgwick, as well as an in-depth look at New York during the late 1960s. Edie stars as Susan, at first a topless California hitchhiker and later a pill-popping Vogue sensation flitting about Andy Warhol's New York scene. Susan is a disenchanted young woman who has left New York City for her mother's home in California. Sleeping in the dilapidated swimming pool, she is trapped in a strange world, suffocated by her overly domestic, pie-baking mother. Her memories of New York are shown through flashbacks, where she was part of Warhol's infamous family of artists and eccentrics. Shocking, entertaining, and moving, CIAO! MANHATTAN is a seminal piece of 1960s cinema that is in a genre all its own. [More]
Starring: Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Baby Jane Holzer, Roger Vadim
Starring: Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Baby Jane Holzer, Roger Vadim, Viva, Paul America, Wesley Hayes, Brigid Berlin, Geoffrey Briggs
Director: John Palmer, David Weisman
Director: John Palmer, David Weisman
Screenwriter: John Palmer, David Weisman
Producer: Robert Margouleff, David Weisman
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Reviews for Ciao! Manhattan
Whether [Edie Sedgwick] is acting or stoned-for-real with a model's instincts propping her up, her performance is wonderful, highly amusing at all the right moments, yet melancholy in a way which is free of self-pity.
At bottom Ciao! Manhattan is cruel exploitation -- though the film is dedicated to Miss Sedgwick's memory, an ultimate indignity.
The narrative is rambling, but there are some genuine, inspired comic moments.
Ciao! Manhattan is ultimately a testament to the odd, elastic nature of the '60s.
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