The weather was a mess this weekend, again, so we decided to stay home and watch some movies. One of them was "Factory Girl". It is the tragic story of the New Yorker It-Girl Edie Sedewick who became famous as the muse of Andy Warhol.
I liked the movie although there are a lot of negative reviews on amazon. It is very frightening what drugs can do with you and how fast you can become addicted if you are surrounded by the wrong people.
About one thing I am not sure whether Andy Warhol is / was such a parasite the movie wants to make us believe. Anyway, you have to form your own opinion.
The lovely face of Sienna Miller fills in for luminous but tragic 1960s icon Edie Sedgwick, the child of wealth and privilege who found brief delight but eventual destruction in the fabled Factory of Pop artist Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce). Factory Girl begins with Sedgwick as a naive art student who comes to New York City seeking freedom from her troubled family, just as Warhol was surrounding himself with oddballs, sycophants, and drug addicts. The eager girl briefly becomes Warhol's favorite and the center of the city's attention, but when she falls into an affair with 'The Musician' (the only slightly ambiguous depiction of a certain nasal-voiced rock star, played by Hayden Christensen, Shattered Glass), Warhol is stricken with jealousy.
source: www.amazon.com
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