“The Factory Girl” Reviews
1. Review of The Factory Girl The movie is about Edie Sedgwick, often called the muse of Andy Warhol. In the start of the movie Edie is studying art in Boston, but moves to New York to become a Model. In New York she meets Andy Warhol and starts to make movies with him, and all the other people at the Factory. Then she meets a guy who sings and plays guitar. They sort of fall in love, but they cant be together because of there different views of the world. After the guy comes to the factory, she “breaks up” her friendship with Andy and the relationship with Andy. The drug addiction that she has had since the start of the movie, becomes worse and worse as the time goes by. She ends up in rehab multiple times, and ends up overdosing in 1971. The movie portrays the “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, the time when she started befriending Andy Warhol, and then later her so called downfall. The movie starts off at the psychologist office, this is also where we fist meet Edie (who is portrayed by Sienna Miller). It’s the year of 1970, this would be a year before Edie dies. She is telling her own story, really passionately and it almost seems like she really is Edie, I wish this would just continue throughout the hole movie - but sadly this isn't really the case. Some scenes (like the other scenes that take place at the office) are brilliant, and you can defiantly say that Sienna has her moments. But in the rest of the movie Sienna Miller makes Edie seem super bubbly and over confident, in comparison to what we’ve been told Edie was like in real life. Honestly, the movie wasn’t bad, but I certainly do not think it was great, if you look at it as a bio-pic. Absolutely not a must-see. But if you look at it as a fictional movie, I have a different look at it. Then I would say it’s “good-enough” to watch. The story is great, the music is phenomenal and the acting is some sort of ‘okay’, at times really convincing. But since it’s based off someone whom literally everyone has at least heard of, then maybe making a documentary would have been a better idea, since they already use her family members and friends in the end titles, and they even show us small interviews with them, which honestly seems out of place in my eyes. While the life of Edie Sedgwick is a sad story, this movie honestly makes it seem sort of unimportant, because you can tell that they tried harder to make the movie sell to the broader audience, rather than the people who are fascinated of her, or actually have read anything about her, other than, the fact that she was called Andy Warhol’s muse. If you wanna know her life story there is absolutely no reason to see the movie, just read a book about her. Watch it if you want to see a movie, which is absolutely not a feel-good film, but more of a exceptionally great cut movie, which is extremely visually pleasing. Plus the movie is filled with a bunch load of funny scenes from the ridiculous portrayer of “Blake”(whom obviously is supposed to be Bob Dylan), he overplays and seems outrageously arrogant and just really boring, you never really see why Edie falls for him, cause he is never sweet or anything like that, it makes absolutely no sense. So i would give this movie 4 out of 10 stars. Because the feel of the movie was great and the acting was okay. But the movie was generally not my kind of movie. I felt that it was sort of boring, which is kind of sad, since Edie’s life certainly wasn’t. Anna
2. Review of “The Factory Girl”
The movie ’’The factory girl’’ is about a girl call Edie Sedgwick from Santa Barbara. She wants to go to New York to be famous and explore art. She meets Andy Warhol at a party and he is amazed and fascinated about her beauty and her background. They become real good friends. They start making movies with Edie as the star. Both Edie and Andy become very famous because of these movies. After a while Edie’s old friend from Santa Barbara comes to visit her in New York and tells her that he is now working for someone she needs to meet. Before that she has been offered drugs and accepted the offer just for fun but is now slowly getting addicted because she starts to accept them a little too often (in her butt). Edie’s friend introduces her to “Billy” aka Bob Dylan. They instantly fall in love, and Andy is not pleased. He gets jealous, and starts cutting her out of his life. She spends some amazing time with “Billy”/Bob. Andy misses her and decides to invite her for dinner with his mother (WEIRD). They enjoy a lovely meal together and has a lot of fun, but after that it goes back to Andy cutting her out. But this time it’s because he realizes Edie is doing way too many drugs. Edie gets lonely and does not understand why he would cut her out like that. At the same time, she starts doing more drugs and finds out that “Billy”/Bob is now married to his girlfriend (That Edie did not even know existed). She now freaks out on Andy and says it’s his fault that she turned out like she did. He feels bad, but does nothing. She can’t get another job, because people know she’s a drug addict. One of the people she knew through Andy, says he knows someone who she can work for. She is desperate for money so she takes the offer. The next she knows is her waking up after making a sex movie. The old friend from her home town, comes to visit her and she is totally ruined. He tries to take care of her, but she runs off and goes back to Santa Barbara. There she tries to get off drugs, to get a normal life. She gets married, but dies soon after. Edie Sedgwick is in the movie portrayed as this happy party-loving girl with a lot of energy but a horrible background. Edie comes from a rich family with a lot of mentally issues. Her father is mentally ill and has been in and out of mental hospitals when he was young. Edie got raped or sexually abused by her father when she was little, about 8. The father also bullied Edie’s older brother Minty to the point where Minty hangs himself, because he was homosexual. Andy is in the movie portrayed as this shy, pale, quiet androgynous, skinny man. He is a weird, absent, confused man, who lives with his mother, because he can’t take care of himself. He cares about very few things, and it can change overnight. He does not think about how he affects others. All he cares about is the moment, and he gets very easily distracted. He is unconcerned to the point where he just seems arrogant. Andy works/”owns” at a place called the factory where he produces all of his art and movies. The life at the factory is hectic. It includes drugs and it is a very open community, where people don’t judge each other. From the beginning Andy is totally in love with her beauty and background. They become what seem to be best friends. Andy may like her more than that, so when she gets another boyfriend, he gets jealous. They talk together all the time and tell each other everything. They can’t do anything without the other. They almost become one. So when Andy starts cutting Edie out and he finds a new girl, to replace
Edie, she becomes very depressed. She can’t get any job, and she suddenly realizes that he has taken advantage of her. He probably does not realize himself though. She goes down a dangerous world with drugs and even though she reaches a point where she is trying to turn her life around, she ends up dying from an overdose. We would give the movies 10/10 stars. We absolutely love this movie. The way we got dragged into the movie and Edie’s personal life, with drugs, daddy/family issues and mental diseases. It was very intense. It got us thinking. How can she can seem so happy all the time, and then still be so broken inside. Her abusive father and her 2 dead brothers. She was in a mental hospital. Her mother did not care, or maybe just ignored, that she was raped by her father when she was just a little girl. How can she still be such a happy and extrovert person? She had it tough, but she tried to make her life better. That’s very fascinating. The movie really makes you think afterwards and leave you with a ‘’wow’’ kind of feeling. Edie’s lovely, hoarse laugh stays in your head because it has this happy sound but a lot of dark secrets and issues behind it.
3. Review of “The Factory Girl”
The film is about the young and beautiful Edie Sedgwick, who decides to drop out of art school to go to New York. She meets Andy Warhol, who promises her, that he will make her into a superstar. She becomes very popular, and meets Bob Dylan, who she ends up having a somewhat romantic relationship with. However, along the way, she also turns into a drug-addict, and from there on it only goes downhill. She loses grip of reality, and dies at a still young age, because of her drug abuse. How Edie is portrayed Edie is a young woman from Massachusetts studying art. One day she decides to move to New York, where she meets Andy Warhol, and is introduced to pop art. She quickly falls into the “young and wild New Yorker” culture, which is based on drugs and sex. Eventually she becomes addicted, and she goes from being a “superstar” (which she calls herself), to being described as vulgar and depressed. The film is kind of like a time-lapse of her life that shows her going from unknown, to becoming a sensation, and at last falling into the spiral of drug, which ends up becoming the death of her. She is portrayed as a unique person in many ways, both negatively and positively; negatively at the end, positively at the beginning.
Andy was a very shy and strange person. He adores Edie at the first sight. His art was not about him, but the people he filmed. He just let people do their thing whilst he recorded it, and was always observing and standing in the behind. He did not let his art be about him, and he intentionally trying to not make perfect art, for example when he filmed the horse and the cowboys. He was this shy person and was introverted. Nobody really knew who he was, except for Edie. Edie got to get a little sneak peak of how he was, for example when she was the only person to meet Andy's mother. Andy and Edie had an odd relationship. Since he was quite shy and a bit cautious, it seemed as if he used Edie to represent his way of actually being (Edie was his hidden self), They both had very unique and different personalities, but opposites attract... However, maybe they weren’t that different after all then?... Their relationship sometimes seemed almost romantic, in which jealousy plays a part too. In the film, she was at the end very poor, and was late with her rent. It was at the time where she rejected Bob Dylan to be with Andy, she began the downfall. It was like Andy did not care about her, and that broke her. She was not a superstar anymore. She did not try to be the pretty girl anymore and just focused on getting money. She was so broken and was so sad. She needed to get away from that by doing drugs. Before she got back to Santa Barbara, it was, as she did not care anymore. She knew she was going to die soon. She did not even care if she had sex with strange people that was filming and doping her. So both Andy and Bob abandoned her. She went to Santa Barbara to a hospital, where she got a healthier life. She got at married, but still died because of the big use of drugs. The factory is like a family. They help each other and work together (even though you are not paid). They all did some kind of art. It was a place where people could express themselves. The Factory was kind of a confusing place and many things happen at the same time. There was always this sexual
atmosphere in the Factory. Andy did his films, which has this sexual undertone, a girl was half-naked and drew penises, and there was always someone in the background having sex. As said earlier, the film is like a time lapse. The film is actually quite short, compared to the fact, that the event takes place over a longer period. Sometimes it cuts from day to day, and goes from one location to another quite quickly, but that is because we only want to see specific events that are relevant for the plot. They use the music that was popular at that time. When dramatic things happened, the tempo of the music raised and got faster. We have decided to give the film 7 out of 10 stars. The actors are well chosen, and does an amazing job playing their role. Especially the actor who plays as Edie is almost identical to the actual Edie Sedgwick. However, the film was also a bit confusing, and the cuts and so on didn’t quite match the usual way of making a movie, but that is also one of the things that makes it unique. Barbara & Rie
4. Review of The Factory Girl The movie is about a girl named Edie Sedgwick who wants to be an artist and therefore decides to move to New York and try her luck. There she is introduced to the artist Andy Warhol. He is very fascinated about her looks, and asks her to be part in his movies at the factory. This is Andy’s workplace, where a lot of different people are gathered. After a few movies, the public starts to notice her. She is the first person to get the title “superstar”. One day she meets a musician and a relationship starts to bloom between them. He is not very found of Andy and tells her to stay away from him, because Andy is using Edie and her look for making money. Edie denies this and chose Andy over “the musician”. An argue starts between Edie and Andy, which ruins their relationship. Edie then gets addicted to drugs due to her rough childhood and her life falling apart because of the money problems and no job. In the last part of the movie she stays in a hospital and tries to fight her addiction. She dies at the age 28 because of a overdose. ;_; Edie is portrayed in the film as a very spontaneous and energized person. In the beginning she does seem more shy, but when she meets Andy something changes. She becomes more restless and it seems that she doesn’t know what she wants other than become famous. She is adored by other people because of her bright personality, but she doesn’t let anyone get too close to her. Hiding her anger from her past inside and use drugs to ease the pain. So even though she is very open, she does keep things to herself. Almost using a mask. Andy is portrayed in the film as a very absent-minded and introvert person. He finds interest in other persons, who are different as he is, but doesn't take responsibility from what might happen to them if they decide to follow him. When they meet at the first time, Andy is very fascinated by Edie. He thinks she’s stunning and has a bright personality. Edie seeks the acceptance and comfort she gets by their relationship and might even see him as the father she never had. When she gets together with the musician Andy and her gets into a fight and Andy takes everything from her. Edie is taken to the rehabilitation center, and is later released as a free woman. This she was not able to handle, and died from an overdose. The factory is a very loose and easy-going place. Everyone is welcome and accepted, and it’s expected that the people who’s there have something new and special to deliver. Might be a bit of group pressure too, with all the wandering lost people who ends up following along in there. A special feature in this film, is that sometimes when it cuts from one clip to another, it changes into black and white, due to switching in a old studio camera. The film’s music is heavily based on the emotionally play throughout the film. We like how her person evolves in such a powerful and interesting way. We also like Andy’s way to handle his problems, also what makes him interesting. ******* Bjarke & Fiala
5. Review of “The Factory Girl” Edie is portrayed as a very joyful girl in the movie ”Factory Girl”. Ravished in the prospect there came with being a superstar, but even though she always was spotted smiling; she was a girl with many troubles and fears of being alone. Sienna Miller who is playing the world first Superstar Edie Sedgwick, manage to get all the little details and movements as we see them from Edie. The actor Guy Pearce plays the young art talent Andy Warhol. Pearce`s Warhol is very self-involved and has some slight hints of autism by his lack of emotion towards other people and also the lack of facial expressions. Andy Warhol definition of art was not looked at as correct when he first started and this is shown the movie. Andy was portrait as a man who created a fascination with the things around him and took especially notice the things he saw beautiful such as Edie Sedgwick. Andy created a world around Edie, a world where she were a superstar. Edie saw Andy and her as friends whereas Andy only saw Edie as a prop to help him express his art, but we also get a hint of emotion in the form of jealousy when Edie starts fooling around with “the singer”. This movie has a very depressing view on Edie Sedgwick’s life. It takes a lot of focus on the big amount of drugs that were took in the factory and on how it changed Edie to the mess in the end of the movie and when Edie tries to turn her life around it is still the temptations of the drugs that lures her to her death. The factory is supposed to have an appealing effect on people. It is a place without rules where only your own imagination is the limit. But as the movie goes on the factory gets more and more disturbing because you see how it destroys Edie. The film sets in the 60´s so there is a retro vibe in the way it is filmed. Sometime the movie is filmed handheld so you get the feeling that you are a part of the movie, that way things get more realistic and draws you in. Some scenes are though filmed with a still camera to give it more of a calm and professional look. The music has also a focus on the 60´s but is also at the same time switching depending on the mod of the scene. So when things get sad the does to. All in all it was a riveting movie that really catches your attention. We give the movie 8 superstars. Emilie Schou & Ida
6. Review of “The Factory Girl” Edie is portrayed as a very joyful girl in the movie ”Factory Girl”. Ravished in the prospect there came with being a superstar, but even though she always was spotted smiling; she was a girl with many troubles and fears of being alone. Sienna Miller who is playing the world first Superstar Edie Sedgwick, manage to get all the little details and movements as we see them from Edie. The actor Guy Pearce plays the young art talent Andy Warhol. Pearce`s Warhol is very self-involved and has some slight hints of autism by his lack of emotion towards other people and also the lack of facial expressions. Andy Warhol definition of art was not looked at as correct when he first started and this is shown the movie. Andy was portrait as a man who created a fascination with the things around him and took especially notice the things he saw beautiful such as Edie Sedgwick. Andy created a world around Edie, a world where she were a superstar. Edie saw Andy and her as friends whereas Andy only saw Edie as a prop to help him express his art, but we also get a hint of emotion in the form of jealousy when Edie starts fooling around with “the singer”. This movie has a very depressing view on Edie Sedgwick’s life. It takes a lot of focus on the big amount of drugs that were took in the factory and on how it changed Edie to the mess in the end of the movie and when Edie tries to turn her life around it is still the temptations of the drugs that lures her to her death. The factory is supposed to have an appealing effect on people. It is a place without rules where only your own imagination is the limit. But as the movie goes on the factory gets more and more disturbing because you see how it destroys Edie. The film sets in the 60´s so there is a retro vibe in the way it is filmed. Sometime the movie is filmed handheld so you get the feeling that you are a part of the movie, that way things get more realistic and draws you in. Some scenes are though filmed with a still camera to give it more of a calm and professional look. The music has also a focus on the 60´s but is also at the same time switching depending on the mod of the scene. So when things get sad the does to. All in all it was a riveting movie that really catches your attention. We give the movie 8 superstars. Freja & Olivia Siv
7. Review of “The Factory Girl” The movie “Factory girl” is about the life of Edie Sedgwick with Andy Warhol. She lives in New York of her parent's money. Edie meets Andy at a party where she is introduced as “old money” to him. Andy talks to her and does not think she is what he pictured as “old money”. Because when he meets her he is astonished with how unconventional her way of behaving is and he wants to make movies with her. She soon becomes his muse and basically lives with him at his “Factory.” Andy names her a “Superstar” and soon through his movies Edie also becomes a superstar to the public eye. Edie and Andy are very close until Edie meets a famous musician. Edie´s relationship with this musician separates her from Andy. The musician wants her to stop seeing Andy because he is not paying her for her work and she needs to make money. In the end she is a drug addict and spends all her money on drugs and she is without Andy in her life. Her relationship has ended and the musician has found a new girlfriend. When we last see her, she is in a rehabilitation clinic and has gotten her life back on track. In the movie Edie is shown as a bit naive, with no worries for the future, and at times, a bit childish. When she arrives in New York and meets Andy, she loses all restraints, both figuratively and literally, as she does what she wants and turn into underground New York’s darling, but also gets addicted to drugs, heavily so. But as shown when she walks around with Andy alone, and through their phoneconversations, Edie can be very philosophical and deep, knowing herself that her lifestyle isn’t the healthiest, and that she won’t live to 30. She is very affectionate with her friends and social circle at the Factory, especially Andy, and is in whole a very loving person, despite her past experiences. Andy Warhol is described by Edie as a child, and by how he had his mother move in with him, as he can not take care of himself. He has a strange diet (eats peanut butter in restaurants). Andy Warhol is very shy and stays in the shadows. He is an artist that has a hard time responding to the critics´ questions to his art and does not give the impression he has a clear vision with his art. When Andy and Edie are first introduced, they are very fascinated by each other, as neither of them has seen anyone like each other before. Andy helps Edie live out her ‘superstar’ dream, as he brings her to the Factory, and through this, introduce her to the important people of New York. But as the film show through a lot of intimate scenes between the two of them, they are very close, not just when surrounded by stardom. Edie is very affectionate towards Andy, and celebrates his differences. But through the first half of the movie, she frequently chooses to only notice the ‘good’ part of his strange person, thus turning the other cheek towards his tendencies to be cruel, excusing this as how he is “still a child inside”. Andy is just as fascinated of Edie, and the contrast of her honest, carefree personality, but also all the problems she carry with her. He is quite obsessed with her, and gets jealous when she finds other things of interest, that does not involve him. Their relationship is very troubled, as it can only work when Edie ignores the bad parts about Andy, and Andy only likes Edie with all her trouble, and the movie depicts this very well, with how their relationship crumbles, when the ‘musician’ shows up, and gets close to Edie. When we see Edie at her lowest she is lying on the floor half naked and has spent all money on drugs. Her apartment is as much of a mess as her life is and she does not have contact with Andy or her former boyfriend. But the last time we actually see her, she is well and it seems like she is all better. She
talks of how she has gotten her life back after she has come to the rehabilitation clinic with a therapist. We do not see her die of an overdose but walking out of until she has disappeared out of the light. This tells us of how she soon will die. The movie puts the end of her life in a more gracefully light than what the reality probably was. It also gives her the end she never had. In the first part of the movie, ‘The Factory’ is an open space, for creative people who dare to be different, and through their relations, help inspire each other. Andy introduces this to Edie, who as an outsider quickly feels welcome, as the factory people have no real boundaries, which feels freeing for Edie, with her strict background. But as you come closer to the end of the movie, the factory matches Andy, in his hostility towards Edie. The factory people either makes fun of, look down, or ignores Edie, as they follow Andy. In one of the last scenes we see of ‘The Factory’ it has changed drastically, from and open place with a lot of windows and glass, canvases, paintings and artists all over the place, to a dark space, with bare walls, where the people are no longer spread all over the room, but peering from behind the camera, that films Edie’s doppelganger. The movie is filmed in a very realistic way. The camera changes between black and white (when it is one of Andy's movies) to the normal light when it is reality. The camera focuses more on Edie than Andy. It zooms in and out where it with Andy is more distant. It is clear that the movie is about her. It switches between time, first the future, than the past and so on… It is all in Edie´s memory and her flashbacks. As the film is in the sixties, the music is also from that time. The film itself also mentions a lot of wellknown musicians, whose music later became the sound of the sixties, who were all about doing things that society had not let anyone do before, being different, and generally just having a ‘free spirit’. I think it was a very good movie that gave me a nice insight to how the life at “the Factory” was and how Edie Sedgwick lived. I expected all along that this would end badly because I knew of Edie's story before I saw the movie. I was relieved with how they made her life seem. Although Edie´s life ended very tragically I did not get the feeling that she was unhappy with the way she lived and it is more of a celebration of her life than the opposite. She is not seen dying of an overdose but walking out of a frame disappearing into the light. I really liked this movie, and its tone. When you look at Edie’s Wikipedia-page, you get the impression of a girl who had had a very sad childhood, who was always very sad inside, and ended up dying, just when her life could have turned around, if only she could break the vicious cycle she had led most of her (adult) life. But this movie showed her as more than just another tragedy, it made her real. You felt her struggles and were made deeply uncomfortable in this movie. I felt for Edie, which was what made it so good. I have chosen to give this movie 7 out 10 stars. Because it showed her life in such a positive light. ******* Julie & Malin
8. Review of The Factory Girl Plot summary. Edie Sedgwick leaves to New York and quickly gains contact with Andy Warhol and his art studio "the factory". Edie becomes Andy’s inspiration to his new movies and Edie quickly becomes Andy’s "Superstar". Edie lost herself to the drug abuse and the harsh parties. It got worse when she got thrown out of her house and later her family. Edie had dealt with eating disorders and other psychological problems most of them caused by her abusive father. She dies at the age of 28 from an overdose. Edie was portrayed as a trusting girl whom as a cause of that met the wrong people who took advantage of her. She was very kind and very spiritual and free in a sense but still caught by her past and her personal issues. Andy Warhol presented with his mysterious atmosphere and his different way of being. He is shy and awkward around other people, and his feelings are hidden away. This is comes to expression in his art where he takes distance to the feelings that he probably have about his work. Later on he finds himself more pleased with just observing the world through a camera. That is why his relationship to Edie is very complicated. Edie is very open about her feelings and Andy with his fragile mind is hard to communicate with. That is why their relationship has its struggles and in the end leads to Andy excluding a relationship with Edie, in fact he do not want contact with her. Edie's downfall is blamed on the people around her. His family and Andy who shut her out and her mental problems which was caused by her fathers and abuse which was hidden away from the public to seem powerful and stabile. The factory is one of the most important factors in her downfall, portrayed as an unsafe place to because of the environments bad lifestyle. The drugs and the lifestyle around "The factory" killed Edie. The movie included some old clips with Edie and interviews with Edie's closest relations. Which gave the viewer some actual proof of what happened but in a very delicate way so it seemed natural to feel the real Edie. But i think the movie was to idyllic, because it to focus on was of course to depict Edie but at the same time it was almost to subjective in the sense that her story was displayed as a tragedy and it was the kind of locked on that. I give the film 7 stars because of the great acting and the deep descriptions of the persons in the movie. I think most of the actors did a great job, and with the old clips put in with precision it really captured the atmosphere, lifestyle and thoughts from the artist around the factory. Jonatan
9. Movie review of “The Factory Girl” from 2006 In the American 60’s New York, we find Edie Sedgwick, escaped from her childhood home in Santa Barbara, to the glamorous new world of Pop art, modelling and acting. She is spotted by Andy Warhol and is dragged into the world of fame with scandals, drugs and a cigarette always placed nicely in her hand. The career springs at “The Factory” and as she lives her life as a superstar she meets the successful musician, Blake Quinn. After a brief moment of love, she turns him down, and his offer of leaving the Factory. With this she also turns her life in a down going direction and when the Factory dismiss her, all that is left is the drugs and a short life time that ends at an age of only 28. Sienna Miller plays Edie as the “poor little rich girl” with an exceptional resemblance to the dead superstar. She manages to capture Edie’s characteristics down to the smallest hand movement. Her laughs, her rage, her cries are portrayed so we get a look of how damaged Edie really was both before and after her relationship to Andy and the Factory. We experience a relation between to people who have finally found an equally passionate, different and high-maintenance companion in each other. But this companionship was ruined by the stardom obsessive, jealous but also insecure Andy Warhol, played by the talented actor Guv Pearce. Andy puts up a professional facade throughout the movie but we still get glimpses of his introverted personality which originates from his earliest years. It is a very bold movie as it shows real life personalities portrayed through other people’s eyes and giving the viewers an under-the-skin experience, not caring about the dark (and inhumane) sides it shows. We get a very intense look as the movie crosscuts between Andy’s black and white camera and a modern film, which very much symbolize the different aspects of the characters. The soundtrack also contributes to this split feeling and leaves the viewers with chills and blank eyes through Edie’s life and pictures. It is a well-rounded movie with extraordinary casting and a respect for pop-art, though with a dark touch of the consequences of fame and fortune. Definitely worth watching. Stars: 6/6.
By Liv and Marie 1.c
10. “The Factory Girl” Movie Review The movie Factory Girl tells the story of Edie Sedgwick’s life in New York, and her friendship with the artist Andy Warhol. We meet Edie as a young woman going to New York for the first time, accompanied by her friend Chuck, who also acts as her promoter. Edie dreams of getting famous and living an exciting life. After arriving in New York she attends a party where she is introduced to Andy Warhol. The already famous Andy is fascinated by Edie and asks her to be in one of his movies. She visits his studio called “The Factory” and soon they are working on projects together. Edie becomes famous through Andy’s movies, and starts living an eccentric celebrity life with fancy clothing, travelling, expensive restaurants and drugs. She engages in a relationship with musician Billy Quinn, (Bob Dylan) who dislikes Andy Warhol. Edie defends Andy, but gradually realizes that she is not paid any salary by him and ends in debt due to her pricy lifestyle. Her alcohol and drug usage increases, and she is taken advantage of by several people. She is broke, and her family does not want anything to do with her. The movie ends in a hospital where Edie is learning to control her addictions. The audience learn that Edie married a fellow patient from the hospital, but also that she died a year after. Edie is portrayed as a young, adventurous girl. She is happy and energetic all the time everyone loves her, and wants to be like her, though under the surface she is troubled. As a child Edie was abused by her father, and lost several family members including her brother and best friend Misty, who committed suicide. Edie blames her father and family for this because they used to harass Misty for being homosexual. When Edie’s life starts going downhill when Andy finds another muse, and Billy Quinn gets married Edie loses all her friends, and turns to drugs and alcohol. She is very miserable, but still naive and easily taken advantage of. When the movie ends at the hospital, we get an image of a hopeful Edie, who is determined to turn her life around and be happy again. When Andy and Edie first meet, Andy is amazed, and he finds her absolutely stunning. Andy Warhol is portrayed as introvert and a bit mysterious. He is not afraid of being vocal about sexuality, but he rarely talks about himself. Edie seems to understand him on some level, and he feels comfortable around her. They quickly form a friendship as well as a working team, and become very dependant on each other. Edie seems to be attracted by Andy’s eccentric lifestyle and Andy sympathises with Edie’s dream of getting famous. Andy is the one who boots Edie’s career and makes her a “superstar”. When Edie begins a relationship with Billy Quinn, Andy gets jealous, and feels threatened by him, and life at ´The Factory´ is suddenly portrayed way less glamorous than otherwise assumed. When Andy Warhol fails to help Edie, we see a side of him that is cold and distant. We liked the movie because it told us about the time Edie lived in, and how life at the infamous Factory was. Edie’s downfall was well portrayed, and hard to watch. We learned a great deal about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol, more than just who they were, and whatthey accomplished. However we also think it was a bit shallow, and it was more biography-like, and a more existential reverberation, would have dressed it well. Therefore we give it: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ Sif & Johanne
11. Movie review of “The Factory Girl” We meet Edie Sedgwick, a young, beautiful and wealthy girl. She grew up on two ranches in California with her father, Fuzzy, mother and eight siblings. After seeing her father with another woman, he determines that she is hallucinating, and she is sent to a rehabilitation center called Silver Hill. She then starts taking art classes at Cambridge College with her friend Sid. Later on she moves to New York, where she meets Andy Warhol, and she becomes his muse at “The Factory”. “The Factory” is home to a lot of drugs and alcohol, where she starts developing an interest for it. Later on she meets a musician, the so-called “Billy” who Sid works for. They develop feelings for each other and he shows her another way of living without the drugs. But she cannot live without Andy or “The Factory” r, and she chooses the drugs over Billy. Though she knows it is not the best for her. Andy starts freezing her out, and because of the film he has made of her, she cannot get another job. After moving back to Santa Barbara, she finds her way and starts rehab. But in 1971 she dies from a drug overdose. How Edie is portrayed - She is very happy but also naive. - Her beauty is portrayed as her strength. - In a way she is portrayed as a little girl, playing around and expecting to be respected. - She is managing to keep up a facade and trying to live her life. She tries to act like something that she is not. Her inside is “crushed” or very emotionally affected. She is fighting herself. - She is portrayed as a somehow both insecure as well as a confident girl. On the inside she is insecure and her psychological state in life is a downward spiral. She is trapped in her own mind. On the outside she is confident and dresses in the way that she wants to be dressed. She is almost two persons. She can “fall apart” as well as seem like a person living with no worries.
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How Andy Warhol is portrayed as an artist and a person - A very strange and reserved person. - A personality like a little boy. - He is in love with Edie, and when she falls in love, he gets sad, and freezes her out. He knows a lot about her. He knows what to do to make her unhappy. He is playing with her emotions - strategically. He knows what he is doing. If she does not do as he please, he tries to destroy her (When he makes her have sex with a man, while Chuck says things about how her father abused her). How the relationship between Edie and Andy Warhol is portrayed - Edie and Andy seem inseparable because they know, that they are nothing without each other. Especially Edie. She is his muse and he is drawn to her in a way that he cannot explain. - But if she does not do as he pleases, he is not afraid of switching her out with another girl. When Edie gets in a lot of trouble, Andy does not do anything to help her. In a strange way he seems to love her, but when she needs him, he has no trouble cutting her off. How the film explains Edie’s downfall and eventual death
- Her makeup is not done properly (as it always is) - She walks around outside without shoes on, and in a short dress and no jacket, when everyone else is wearing big jackets. She is a mess and completely falling apart. - She always have blue marks on her backside/bottom from the drugs she takes. - Her hair is not dyed blond anymore, it is getting her natural hair-color, dark brown. - She is not present anymore, she just lies or runs around, and she is so confused about herself. She does not notice that people are stealing from her as well as drugging her in her sleep. They keep pushing her down in a way, so she stays almost “dead”. She does not care anymore, and she just lets them do it.
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How the film portrays life at ”The Factory” - Like they were all drug abusers You needed to take the drugs, it was a part of life and living at “The Factory”. But if you took too many, you would be freezed out.
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How the film has been filmed and cut: Some of the film is made like the movies Andy made, and some of it is like a documentary.
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The film’s use of music: The music is used, so it supports the action in the film.
Our opinion: - Our opinion about the film is very similar. We both give it 7 out of 10 stars because it is a very good movie as well as very affecting. It is also very informative, because we get to know Edie and her life at “The Factory” and you almost feel like you know them. We were both affected by the state that Edie was in, and because we did research on her life before we watched it, we already knew what she was going through - and you just kept waiting for her to “fall apart”. That was very affecting. We do not know if, not reading about her, would have changed our sight on how we think of her throughout the film.
Agnethe & Simone
12. Movie review: The Factory Girl Factory girl is about the actor/model Edie Sedgwick and her meeting the artist Andy Warhol. She starts out being an art student who moves to New York with her friend Chuck. She is introduced to Andy at an art gallery, and he instantly falls for her. She is introduced to the Factory and then becomes a huge part of his life and art. She stares in a lot of his underground movies and she becomes a superstar. But it is not all happy days and Edie soon discovers the dark side of fame and starts doing drugs. Her old friend from art school introduce her to a young musician called Blake. After a while they fall in love but Andy and Blake does not work well together so Edie has to choose. She has no money and she is doing a lot of drugs, soon becoming an addict. She finds herself in a very bad place but one day her good friend picks her up and takes her to rehab. The main character, Edie is portrayed as a smiling, free spirited young woman. She comes to New York with big dreams of becoming a superstar. In the movie we get to see Edie from two different perspectives: the bight and smiling side and the sad, addicted and depressed side of her. Another really important person in the film is Andy Warhol, he is portrayed as a socially awkward person. As an artist he was very mysterious and superficial, his personality is quite secret, nobody knows him for real. Both his art and his personality is kind of one dimensional The relationship between Andy and Edie is full of adoration but a bit superficial. It seems like Andy only wants Edie as business and to make her a superstar with his name on it . When Edie meets Blake Andy begins to distances himself from Edie and he seems a bit jealous. Andy and Edie spend most of their time at “the factory”, which is Andy’s atelier. There is always people at “the factory”, most of them are artists and creative people, they are all Andy’s “friends”. There is definitely also a lot of drug use tied to the place, which Edie becomes a part of. There is always something happening at “the factory”, whether it's a party, making of a movie or just chilling around. The film is filmed with a hand held camera and during the movie when they are at the Factory and and making Andy’s films it is filmed through his camera in black and white. The music in this movie is used to make ambience and when they are dancing and doing other things in the Factory. Clara & Sophia
13. Review of “The Factory Girl” The adventuress young girl Edie Sedgwick, is looking for a life of fame. Of course the right place for that is in the city of New York. When she first comes to New York she explores the city, she does modelling jobs and artistic work. At a party at an art exhibit, she gets introduced to the very famous and upcoming artist Andy Warhol. By the first look of Edie Andy is fascinated, he and drags Edie into the tough world, of art and creative expressions. Being the new icon of art, and the muse of Andy Warhol, Edie lived what looked like the life of a superstar to the surrounding society, but on the inside she had serious drug and alcohol problems, and on top of that multiple eating disorders. These issues made her disappear into herself, and in the following years she went from being the icon of art and fashion, to being a disgrace to the society. She lived her last years at a mental health hospital, where she was treated for her disorders. When she finally got out, she married a former patient of the hospital and died one year after, by an overdose. Edie and Warhol's relationship were somewhat complicated. It was hard to tell what they were to each other, in real life, and in the movie. If their relationship were just for fame or were going on a much deeper level, we do not know. They could clearly get mad at each other, which shows they both cared, but it also shows, that they were both big personalities and had an opinion in this period. Edie clearly values Warhol’s opinions about how to interact in the world, and with it. When Edie got “Billy’s” attention, Warhol got jealous, and at the same time he felt that he lost something, that belonged to him. At this point in the film, we see Edie and Andy going in different directions, slowly separating from the life they had built together in the factory. Andy reinvented himself and started finding new people to work with, and creating new superstars. When Edie realised that her time had passed at the factory, and that she could not get the life back she once had, she slowly fell more and more apart. She had been way too trusting towards Andy, she had no strings attached to anyone else that could help her, at least not any help she wanted. After declining help from an old friend from home, she was left with nothing, and the poor life she had after clearly portrait, that she barely had anything to live for any longer. The life in the factory is ongoing, there is always a new project and new people to lose oneself in. There is no feeling of night and day, when you hide in the silver apartment. No drugs are allowed, but you still see several needles breaking the skin of the artists at the factory. The life in the factory was based on being free, and being yourself. It was Andy’s place to discover new stars, and he defined them, as upcoming “superstars” What the film shows, is that pop art was not unique, or at least the models used to create the art, were not unique. When Edie kind of ‘fell of the wagon’, because of the tough life at the factory and her life afterwards. Andy just found a new “Edie”, a new face to make famous. Edie experienced that everyone is replaceable, and as soon as she did not fulfil Andy’s wishes, she was worth nothing. The life in the factory was tough, and if you were not a mad head entering, you would certainly be one leaving.
When Andy pushed Edie away, she broke down, and lost herself to the nightlife of drugs and parties in Manhattan. She was broke, the result of her father cutting her off, he wanted nothing to do with her. Even when Edie cried for help, her family refused. No model-agency wanted her anymore, Andy had made sure that her reputation was ruined, and that everybody kept her out of the superstar world. She was seen as a failure and as a disgrace to the society, no longer worth looking at. At one point Edie pulled herself together, and went to Silver Hill to turn her life around, and lose the bad habits. A short time after she left the institution, she died of an overdose. If her supposedly ‘sane’ months were all an act, or if something made her relapse is not known. The film “Factory girl” is a great replica of how the life was at the factory. The actors are very believable, and it is clear that they had studied the behaviour and body language of the real Andy and Edie. We will rate this film based on its great movie adaption (from real life) including actors. We definitely think that it was a great movie, and with the parameters we have analysed and written about we would like to reward the film with 9.5 out of 10 stars. Thea & Martha & Sofie
14. Review on the movie “The Factory Girl” The movie is about a girl, named Edie Sedgwick, who gets discovered by Andy Warhol. She gets invited to Andy Warhol's factory, where they made a lot of movies. Though the film we get see glimpse of how she really is. We get to sees through her facade. We get to know what she have been though when she was little and how it has affected her adult life. She is portrayed as a free spirit, but is still a very valuable person, with a lot of problems. Initially the movie sets focus on a happy girl with a glamorous life, during the movie we gets to sees the downside of her life with all of her problems and her sensitive personality. She started taking drugs in the factory, to forget all her misery, but at last she cannot hold her facade any longer, and she snaps. She gets so lost, with no money, no friends - no nothing. Even her own family do not want to help her to get better. When she calls to ask for money so she can pay her rent, her father do not want to talk to her, and even calls her a bitch in the background of the phone. In the end of the movie we see Edie lay in her bed completely blackout from drugs, four men are in her apartment, where they have sexually abused her and has taped it. Luckily enough her old friend arrived in time, before that got to steal all her things. He wants to help her, but she does not want any help. Edie and Andy’s relationship is kind of superficial. Its looks like they have a lot of fun together. But after many years, Andy betrays Edie and does not care about her. She cries in front of him, and says that he has fucked her up. But the only answer he gives he, is, that he has helped her to be famous and that she should be thankful. Even though they have been friends for year, Andy do not care about Edit. When he does not need her in her films any more, he does not need her in his life. Sometimes the movie has been filmed in a different way. The scenes in The Factory are filmed in black and white, and it looks old-fashioned. Maybe it is because, to bring up a feeling like you are in the factory. You get unwell when feel like you are in the factory. There is chaos, and you feel unsafe. People do a lot of things around like taking drugs, kisses and so on, at you feel misplaced. The movie accomplishes to show the factory so we know how it feels to be there. We will give the movie 9 out of 10 stars, because the movie accomplish to give us a good and exact impression of Edit life. Contemporary the movie is very funny exciting Therese & Natasja