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This is not an Andy Warhol movie. Ciao Manhatten was begun after Edie Sedgwick left Warhol. Bob Dylan, who wrote several songs about her, told her Warhol wasn't paying her enough and that Albert Grossman was going to be her agent. Never did she look more beautiful. But suddenly she found out Dylan had married another woman. And, understandably, they had a falling out. Around this time, her super-wealthy father disowned her. This is background. The parts shot in B/W are of Edie before she was put in Manhattan Hospital -- a psychiatric institute -- where they supposedly fed her about 12 Tuinols a day. Her mother got wind of this and made arrangements to bring her to a facility in Santa Barbara, where the mother lived, and where Edie could leave the hospital for a day and come back. She met her husband there. The color parts of the movie show Edie in California 3 years later, with fake breasts, constantly exposed, and where she resided in a dry swimming pool with a tent above her. That part is fictional. But she was in bad shape. The drugs destroyed her. In the end, you see some footage shot of her on her wedding day. Oddly, she wore no make-up and looked tanned and healthier than previously. But her husband found dead at the age of 27. The autopsy showed she accidently overdosed on sleeping pills and alcohol by accident. She was a very pretty rich girl. She was the girl of 1965, a prototype for Andy Warhol, who was stunned when she left him. In the B/W section of the film, shot in NY, she wandered around looking at fashions. She wore exaggerated eye-liner, which brought out the beauty of her anthracite eyes, the windows of the soul. But she looked horribly emaciated; and went from speed to heroin. She wound up in Manhattan hospital. By the time they shot the color film, she was on her last legs, no pun intended. (She danced everyday, ballet and jazz, for hours and would show up at Warhol's Factory smelling of dried sweat.) Ciao Manhattan consists of a flimsy plot. It was all about Edie, playing "Susan," the poor little rich girl. It's an Edie Sedgwick film, similar to the way people would go to see a Natalie Wood film. What is the legacy of Edie Sedgwick? A young, vibrant, gifted, wealthy girl, gets hooked on speed and dies at 27. Her father was a rich sculptor, a manic-depressive so severe, his doctor told him not to have kids. But he went ahead and fathered a whole brood. Several sons committed suicide, and that's what the main story was about: Edie plunges into the balm of drugs and wastes her life. Someone wrote, "What did Edie Sedgwick tell us?" And the answer was, "Nothing." I disagree. She was the teacher. StanislavskymethodRead full review
I know some people find this movie very depressing, or painful to watch because they feel that Edie was being exploited by the filmakers, but I really didn't think the movie was that bad--it's the only readily available way to see Edie as a three dimensional person, and not just in photographs. The film is an excellent warning againt heavy drug use. It really is sad--but I think seeing her in the beauty of her youth, and being able to get a basic idea of her gracefullness and personality, like the way she spoke, is what makes the feeling of underlying sadness in this movie still certainly quite worth watching it.
i am facinated by edie's life, so i wanted to see this underground doc. while the movie offers great images of a happier edie in new york in the early-to-mid '60s, this film is actually a very depressing look into her decline. the filmmakers clearly manipulate edie (in her drug daze) to agree to participate in some humiliating scenes. i doubt a younger, more "with it" edie would have agreed to play this "susan superstar" role, as it is actually just a sad, drugged-out, egotistical version of herself.
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