Factory Girl tells the story of Edie Sedgewick, the uber-rich socialite that hung out at Andy Warhol's "Factory" from 1965-1968 and (arguably) put Warhol on the map (through the films they did together). Sadly, Edie's association with Warhol and the Factory spiraled into rampant drug addiction, poverty and ultimately lead to her drug overdose death at the age of twenty-eight. Directed by George Hickenlooper (unfortunate last name for sure), it stars Sienna Miller (as Edie), Guy Pierce doing a fantastic, cold, robot-like Warhol (not unlike the real man), and Hayden Christensen as the young, arrogant Bob Dylan. While the movie isn't very good when taken as a whole (the fault, I think, of a poorly constructed script and the fact no one here is actually likeable), I must say I was impressed with Sienna's acting. Watching her, I thought of Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film Capote last year - a better film granted - but similar in the intense character study of a unique individual in our cultural history. Kudos to Sienna's work here then and raspberries to the rest.
My rating 5 out of 10.
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