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Factory Girl Factory Girl is Sienna
Miller’s chance to prove she can do more in a movie than look
good while naked
(that scene in Alfie changed my life), but it seems like all of the
extraneous
stories have been taking away from the movie. While
waiting for Factory Girl to make it to theaters, we have heard all the stories about
Sienna’s
derogatory reference to Pittsburgh, how Bob Dylan was threatening to
sue based
on his portrayal in the movie even though they don’t use his
name (if Hayden
Christensen was playing me, I guess I would threaten to sue, too), and
those
rumors about how Christensen and Miller might really have been engaged
in some actual,
not faking it nookie when filming the big sex scene (Hayden’s
light saber found
its way to Sienna’s magical garden?
No
way. She was faking
it). Lost amid all
of the gossip, and talk about
re-shoots was the fact that Factory Girl is a good movie. Mostly based on the true
story, Miller stars as Edie Sedgwick – a troubled heiress and
art student
heading to While Defamer.com’s
reference to Miller as, “The It Girl Who Never Really
Was,” is funny, it turns
out she’s a good actress (and not just at faking the sex
scenes). While
Miller comes off a bit forced and over
the top in the big, show stopping scenes, she is fantastic and natural
in
making Edie into a likable, lovable, but flawed character. She sparkles with charisma
on screen as life
becomes as exciting and wonderful as Edie always imagined, and Miller
shares
wonderful chemistry with the amazing Pearce, who makes Warhol more
interesting
than you may have ever seen him. He has to play a freaky character in a
reserved way that will draw in the audience, while also showing a
darker side
to the man than we may have realized was there.
Even more, director George
HIckenlooper, as well as editors Dana Glauberman and Michael Levine, provide a great structure to the movie as
we see and hear Sedgwick
(still played by Miller) essentially guiding us through her life story,
warts
and all, in scenes reportedly shot after production has shut down (a
smart
re-shoot if I ever saw one). Unfortunately,
we also get stuck will all sorts of real life interviews at the end as
we see
famous figures and those intimately involved with the story recount
their
feelings about Edie, which isn’t needed since we just saw the
movie. 3 Waffles
(Out
Of 4) Factory Girl is rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language, and pervasive drug use.
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