Factory Girl (film)

Factory Girl is a 2006 American biographical film directed by George Hickenlooper. It is based on the rapid rise and fall of 1960s underground film star and socialite, Edie Sedgwick played by Sienna Miller, known for her association with the artist Andy Warhol Guy Pearce.

Edie Sedgwick Sienna Miller is a young heiress studying art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She moves to New York City, where she is introduced to pop art painter and filmmaker Andy Warhol Guy Pearce. Intrigued by the beautiful socialite, he asks her to perform in one of his underground movies. Soon she is spending time with him at the Factory, his studio and also the hangout of a group of eccentrics, some of them drug addicts. Her status as Warhol superstar and success as a fashion model earn her popularity and international attention.Her Cambridge friend Syd introduces her to poet and singer Billy Quinn Hayden Christensen, a character based on Bob Dylan. Andy becomes jealous, so Edie tries but fails to keep her love affair with Billy a secret. To reconcile them, she arranges a meeting. Although he agrees to be filmed by Andy, when Billy visits the studio he shows his contempt. As he is leaving, she tries once more to make peace, but Billy calls Andy a bloodsucker who will kill her. Seeing that she will stay, he kisses her forehead. ........

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