Factory Girl

When Edie Sedgwick came to New York in the mid-1960’s she was just one of hundreds of talented girls yearning to conquer the world. Everything changed however the moment she was noticed by guru of the New York art underground, Andy Warhol. Edie became an inseparable part of the artist’s community, Warhol’s private and public companion, and as the emblematic face of his experimental films could boast the grandiose nickname of “superstar”. She was not a creative independent artist but rather a muse in the hands of the neurotic, high-handed genius – and it quickly destroyed her. Especially when her life interconnected with another genius of the wonderful and painful 1960’s – folk romantic Bob Dylan (named here Billy Quinn). This drama by director George Hickenlooper tells of a forgotten personality whose life became entangled with the lives of the rich and famous. (source: catalogue Karlovy Vary IFF)