Having seen Factory Girl last night, I wish there were some good Canadian films freshly available on DVD. I don't want to write a proper review, but Factory Girl is a big bore, especially on a hot summer night. While Guy Pearce is creepily effective as Andy Warhol, Sienna Miller overacts her way through the film as spoiled heiress Edie Sedgwick, a flash-in-the-pan member of the Factory. Yes, Ms. Miller uses an American accent, wears a lot of retro clothes and even pops up naked in several scenes, but alas, one never cares for Edie because she's not the main character but a caricature of titanic proportions. She parties, boozes and shoots up drugs and talks a lot of nonsense and that's all you get. Bah. Don't even get me started about Anakin Skywalker as is-he-or-isn't-he Bob Dylan (never named in the film of course). There's a tease with an appearance of Nico and mention of Warhol's entrance into the music biz, but nothing more, just an insubstantial quasi-indie film. Now if they could make a film about the Velvet Underground, that would be interesting!

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