Salt Lake Tribune Review
With unremarkable turns in "Casanova" and "Layer Cake,"
Sienna Miller has always been a pretty but shallow screen presence - so having her play Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's beautifully vapid muse, seems inspired. Turns out the casting is perfect, because Miller is a dead ringer for the gamine Sedgwick and because she puts in a strong performance as the poor little rich girl.
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The movie portrays Sedgwick as a perpetual victim, abused by her father, stuffed into mental hospitals, used by Warhol (creepily played by
Guy Pearce) only to be spurned by him when she fell for a famous folk singer (
Hayden Christensen, doing a good Bob Dylan impersonation), and ultimately driven to drugs and poverty. But Miller's touching performance is hamstrung by director
George Hickenlooper's disconnected narrative and his overdone efforts to make the film look as messy and dirty as Warhol's underground films.
- Sean P. Means
The rundown: Sienna Miller's tough performance as the beautifully vapid Edie Sedgwick, muse to Andy Warhol (
Guy Pearce), is undercut by a jittery narrative style. 90 minutes. (S.P.M.)
Synopsis: Arriving into the chaos of mid-60s New York, rich, ambitious and breathtakingly beautiful Edie Sedgwick meets counter-culture anti-hero Andy Warhol who sees in her untamed vulnerability the makings of an irresistible muse. Andy invites Edie into the wild world of the Factory, a former downtown hat factory he has transformed into a bohemian, creative paradise. Here, a rag-tag mix of musicians, poets, artists, actors and misfits gather to create art and make underground movies during the day and throw glam parties all night long. Edie quickly ascends to become the star of Warhol's movies, an idol at the Factory and a media darling. She is on top of the world when she falls in love with a larger-than-life rock star. But when Edie becomes caught between Warhol's world of sexy surfaces and her new love, she winds up rejected by both--and once again, set adrift in the modern world.
