It's a sad, haunting story -- but George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl does little to show us why we should care.
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02/09/07
Factory Girl (2007)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:20
Rotten:90
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Despite a dedicated performance by Sienna Miller, Factory Girl delves only superficially into her character, and ultimately fails to tell a coherent story.
Theatrical Release:Dec 29, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,566,027
Synopsis: Best known for playing muse to Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick was a dazzling young socialite who found herself at the apex of the pop art scene in 1960s New York. In FACTORY GIRL, Sienna Miller is the... [More]
Starring: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon
Director: George Hickenlooper
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Reviews for Factory Girl
Miller gets old and used up before our eyes, and we not only see it, we see what it means to experience it. This is a movie about power, and its spectacle is that of a woman losing all of it.
02/09/07
Top CriticAccording to anyone you care to ask, Factory Girl has been cut and recut a couple of times and may not even be the movie that filmmaker George Hickenlooper intended to make. This sounds reasonable, as nobody sets out to make a movie this banal.
02/09/07
Despite strong performances by Sienna Miller as the quintessential '60s It Girl and Guy Pearce as FrankenArtist Andy, the film ultimately doesn't have much to say about the people it purports to depict or the tumultuous times in which they lived.
02/09/07
Less a movie than a montage, the swinging sixties shot in an arc both tiny and trite.
02/09/07
Factory Girl is not, strictly speaking, a bad movie. It's something worse: an irredeemably banal drama about some of the most protean, contradictory creative forces of the 1960s.
02/09/07
Sedgwick's thoroughly photographed life would doubtless make an engrossing documentary (a genre to which Hickenlooper ought to stick)...
02/09/07
Plays like it was dragged kicking and screaming into a traditional biopic structure.
02/09/07
[Sedgwick] mostly just seems like an irresponsible girl without any real dreams, who blew all her money and only wound up in rehab when she couldn't pay her rent anymore.
02/09/07
Sienna Miller shows impressive range in Factory Girl, but range isn't necessarily what the part requires.
02/09/07
This is Sienna Miller's chance to prove she can do more in a movie than look good while naked, and it turns out she's a good actress.
02/08/07
The two central performances are competent but uninspired -- and annoyingly mannered. Pearce's Warhol is a one-note, irresponsible villain and Miller's Sedgwick is a shallow, pretentious party girl who chain-smokes her way through every scene.
02/08/07
Pearce goes beyond the other skilled mimicries we’ve seen on screen from David Bowie, Jared Leto et al to locate the insecurity in Warhol’s pettiness and cruelty.
02/08/07
Factory Girl isn't a penetrating chronicle of Sedgwick's life so much as a production designer's highlights reel.
02/08/07
Top CriticCautionary tale? Fashion show? Love story? Excuse for groovy soundtrack? George Hickenlooper's Factory Girl is a little of each, but not enough of any to make a satisfying film story.
02/08/07
Top CriticHickenlooper likes to observe chaos and artistic extremes with a friendly eye, and there are hints all through Factory Girl of the shattering film it could have been. But the story falls too easily into 'live fast, die young' laments and postures.
02/08/07
Top CriticThis is juicy stuff, but the filmmakers have absolutely no idea what to do with it.
02/08/07
Top CriticThe historical Edie Sedgwick was a fascinating figure and at no time was she more interesting than when she was a member of Warhol's Factory. It's too bad Factory Girl fails to make this woman compelling in these circumstances.
02/08/07
Top CriticSienna Miller, with her glossed and dimpled party-girl smile, looks so much like the actual Edie Sedgwick that you may think, at moments, that you're seeing the real thing. That spooky look-alike allure does a lot for the movie.
02/07/07
Top CriticI doubt if it would have been considered slick or glam-sham enough to hold even Warhol’s interest in the days when he stuck the label of high art on everything that popped out of a Polaroid.
02/07/07
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