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[Highly rated reviewer]

Sad but beautiful vignette of a life wasted...

A really interesting and extremely well played look into the bohemian side of life in the 60's that created and dropped icons and twisted already fragile minds beyond what they could take. This isn't a particularly cheerful film but is very interesting, informative and important.

Edie is brilliantly played by Sienna Miller, and comes across as the fun seeking faun of 60s pop art scene, but inside fragile and manipulated and used by many around her. While Warhol (again I think brilliantly brought across by Guy Pearce ) is a weirdo who fed off the misplaced adoration of groupies around him picking up and dropping people he could use and feed off like confetti.

There are a few factual errors, In the film his father is said to be a Miner, and that is generally thought to be the case, he was actually a construction worker from Pennsylvania, the family were immigrants from Slovakia named Varchola, and as a boy Warhol gained much of his eccentricity by being at home suffering with a nervous disorder that caused blotchiness and he would stay home with mother rather then mix with others, in the weird world of the 60's this gave him a weird magnetic aura that blew up out of all proportions relative to his skill.

I feel his 'pop' art is more a hang off from his previous incarnation as a simply advertising illustrator, I certainly don't find his art as important or original as other contemporary artists say Picasso or Dali, in fact his output was probably blown into fame by the reputation gained by his drug fuelled hangers on.

I was brought into knowing Edie by the Cult song of the same name (Edie-Ciao baby) which I still play regularly, and I think this sums up Edie Sedgewick extremely well 'Caught up in an endless scene, Paradise a shattered dream'.... Indeed... well worth a watch.

A wonderful biopic to watch

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED this film. Sienna Miller is brilliant as rich and beautiful Edie Sedgwick. When she meets Andy Warhol, New York's most famous artist, her life changes - - - from unknown trust fund baby into the Big Apple's most dazzling Superstar only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality... I enjoyed Guy Pearce’s portrayal of Warhol. He comes across as a nasty piece of work. He abandons Edie, when she destroys their platonic relationship by falling for the political rock star Quinn – played by Hayden Christensen (Star wars). I read some awful reviews in the papers before seeing this film. Some said:”superficial, pointless and surprisingly dull trudge”. I found this film very informative, a fascinating insight into 60’s bohemian life style and would definitely recommend it as well worth watching.