#71, 7/24 – Factory Girl (2006) (nqpdd)

As I’ve said before, there’s a part of me which is just inherently against biopics. Some win me over, yes (Marie Antoinette and The Aviator being two recent examples), but I can’t handle most of them because they tend to be cut from the same, really boring cloth.

And Factory Girl is, well, a blueprint of everything I dislike about biopics. Rampant and ridiculous speculation. Overly simplistic cause-and-effect storytelling. Fantasy presented as something approaching factual. And so on and so on. It’s really just dreadful.

None of this is to take away from Sienna Miller, though. I thought she made a vibrant Edie Sedgwick in a movie which I really don’t think was up to her level. I sincerely hope her upcoming performances build on this one, and that she’s given something better to work with. Because I like Miller a lot. But this film? Ugh.