In the mid-1960s, wealthy beginner Eddie Sedgwick (Siena Miller) faces a new path in her life as she meets Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce). It seems that the life of this star turns into a different path, where she may become a new star, as long as she wants to be one day.
I think Sienna Miller does a really nice job of capturing Edie Sedgwick, who really was the fore-runner to Paris Hilton and a lot of other people who are just famous for being famous.
You feel as if either you or the filmmakers have missed the point, if there ever actually was one.
CinemaBlend.com
May 02, 2008
Summing up a complex human being in two hours is like an MTV spot about Nelson Mandela cut to a Kanye West track. We don't really get to know Sedgwick at all.
Sedgwick's death seems as predestined as a Hollywood melodrama.
House Next Door
November 06, 2008
In Factory Girl, a jumbled account of the short life and photogenic hard times of the first Andy Warhol superstar, Edie Sedgwick, Sienna Miller makes Sedgwick into an archetypal over-confident blond with a mannered young Kathleen Turner croak.
One wonders whether the documentary format would have better served the material than this ill-focused drama. Since real-life family and observers chime in over the end credits, perhaps the filmmakers were thinking the same thing.
