Rated R Today we have Paris Hilton. Back in 1960 they had useless socialite Edie Sedgewick (Sienna Miller). The day Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce) met Edie, life imitated art. Shot with fuzzy black & white and strange camera-angle cuts, the audience is immediately whisked back to a time when hippy lofts meant drug parties and when artists knew they were different, but didn’t quite know how to express it. Billy Quinn a.k.a. Bob Dylan is seductively played by Hayden Christensen and Jimmy Fallon takes a small backseat performance as Chuck Wein, Edie’s best friend. Pearce’s performance of Warhol – whose soup-can art work threw America back in its face – is right-on with his dry comments that flow from orangey-red lips, but its Miller’s depiction of Edie that steals the show with her passion for life, her need to belong, and her loyalty to a man who would eventually betray her, just as her daddy did. She should have gone home with Bob Dylan. Three crowns
