As I studied Andy Warhol at school I was intrigued to see this movie. After I watched it I wanted to know more about Edie Sedgwick, and I found that the movie did make up quite a lot of the storyline, most namely the affair with the "Bob Dylan" inspired character played by Hayden Christensen. I haven't seen any movies where Andy Warhol has been portrayed before, and as I'm Australian I love the Aussie actors and think that Guy Pearce did a great job at portraying the very odd Warhol. Sienna MIller was OK, it looked like she was putting it on a bit, maybe a little unconvincing but from other reviews I have read that Edie Sedgwick actually did act like that so I could be totally wrong. The drug use was pretty full on and some of the film making scenes were a bit confronting.
There are a few things I want to know about in more depth. Did Warhol and Sedgwick really end in that way and was he really that much of an A-hole to her in the end and totally replacing her for someone else. Also, the way she goes on about how her father was a molester (she doesn't actually ever say he slept with her i don't think but I got the idea that he did that to her). The story about her brother hanging himself. True? When she was drugged by that guy and apparently had sex with him and the guy who knew Alfred HItchcock, did they really film it? and was she really taking heroin?
The movie is overall a good story, but I can see why people who are Edie fans would not like the way in which she has been portrayed. But for the pure fact that if someone knows nothing about Edie, this movie I think is really good. A bit predictable but really good.
Whether the makers differentiate if its only BASED on a true story or an actual true story is questionable as well since many of the reviewers believe the movie is very untrue.
Overall a good entertaining but quite sad movie. Sad because the end part is true.
There are a few things I want to know about in more depth. Did Warhol and Sedgwick really end in that way and was he really that much of an A-hole to her in the end and totally replacing her for someone else. Also, the way she goes on about how her father was a molester (she doesn't actually ever say he slept with her i don't think but I got the idea that he did that to her). The story about her brother hanging himself. True? When she was drugged by that guy and apparently had sex with him and the guy who knew Alfred HItchcock, did they really film it? and was she really taking heroin?
The movie is overall a good story, but I can see why people who are Edie fans would not like the way in which she has been portrayed. But for the pure fact that if someone knows nothing about Edie, this movie I think is really good. A bit predictable but really good.
Whether the makers differentiate if its only BASED on a true story or an actual true story is questionable as well since many of the reviewers believe the movie is very untrue.
Overall a good entertaining but quite sad movie. Sad because the end part is true.