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PorchMonkey4Life

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Dec 10, 2006, 9:46:15 AM12/10/06
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Prior to seeing this film I never heard of Edie Segwick. I saw a usenet
thread about her and bob dylan but didn't pay it any mind because I not
a huge dylan fan and I didn't know who edie was.

This film is a biopic about Edith Segwick and her interactions with Andy
Warhol and a dude named Billy Quinn who seemed to be a Bob Dylan-esque
type and her spiral into porn, prostition, drugs and depression.

Edie was sexually abused by her father for a number of years. When
shewas a girl she caught her father banging a neighbor or staff worker
she tells her mom. The mother doesn't believe her and the father has her
locked up in a mental hospital for a period of time.

He brother commits suicide and leaves her emotionally scarred. She
happens to meet Andy Warhol one night and they are immediately drawn to
one another. Edie worships Andy and Andy enjoys the attention. They go
on to collaborate on some trashy experimental films that Edie's father
disapproves of. Her father cuts her off financially and Edie must fend
for herself.

A mutual friend introduces her to a rock/folk star named Billy Quinn
(who seemed to be Bob Dylan but there is never an admission in the film
that Edie and Dylan knew each other. They use this ficticious character,
Quinn, to bridge the gap). Edie and Billy are quite taken with each
other and a love affair ensues.

Andy Warhol becomes quite jealous and cuts Edie off emotionally (since
he's gay and doesn't have heterosexual sex). Andy's mother is a weird
eastern block women that seems to have had a profound effect on Andy.

As Edie becomes torn between Quinn and Andy she experiences financial
difficulty and becomes a drug addict. She lets strange men shoot drugs
into her and film themselves having sex with her.

Quinn tires of Edie hanging around the "leech" Warhol and wants her to
choose him. She declines and he marries someone else and Edie falls
deeper into her depression and desperation.

The pace of the movie was good. the characters were interesting. the
setting was good. the soundtrack was good. the story was interesting.

I rate this film as a 3.0 out of 4.0 stars.

RichA

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Dec 10, 2006, 1:40:20 PM12/10/06
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Boy, does THIS deviate from her biography in a BIG way.

katorzejames

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Dec 12, 2006, 7:03:03 PM12/12/06
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RichA wrote:
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> Boy, does THIS deviate from her biography in a BIG way.


only the part about her being filmed having sex by strange men.
maybe this refers to the shooting of "ciao, manhattan", but she was
with friends when she shot that.

icebeaker, how did you get to see this film so early?

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