Factory Girl (2006) 8/10

Starring : Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Fallon, Mena Suvari, Shawn Hatosy
Director : George Hickenlooper
Running Time : 96 mins

American heiress turned model Edie Sedgwick (Miller) travels to New York to find fame, but instead finds notoriety by working with modern artist Andy Warhol (Pearce). Rather than becoming a household name for her acting talent, she becomes known as the face of Warhol's Factory and soon slips into a life of drugs and depression caused by Warhol's refusal to pay her any money for her work.

This is a well directed, well formed biopic that allows us to sympathise with a character that could have so easily been turned into a caricature and a figure of ridicule. Miller plays Edie perfectly, managing to progress her character through the movie from beinning to end, with Pearce playing a very whimsical version of Andy Warhol that is bot effective and disturbing. Sadly Hayden Christensen's turn as Billy Quinn (a pseudo version of Bob Dylan) is really poorly conceived.

You’ll like this if you liked : I’m Not There.