Week End Movie #1 // Ciao! Manhattan starring Eddie Sedgwick (1972)
Ciao! Manhattan starring Eddie Sedgwick (1972)
is an american movie directed by John Palmer and David Weisman.
A cult and controversial act of what appears to be the tragic biography of the fragile Eddie Sedgwick, icon of the legendary
"The Factory" art studio owned and
governed by the cruel Andy Wharold who was a product of the youthquake wave with the philosophy of disposable art fashion and also human.
The initial project was to make a movie about the "underground" for the general public of the american drive-in, with as a protagonist a young teenager then unknown.
But really quickly the personality and tragic destiny of Edie Sedgwick push the directors to turn them movie into a kind of biography wish reveal the behind the scene of the "Factory". After the first shots in New York in 1967, the shooting stopped because of Edie Sedgwick which as escape from a fire in her hotel and the incarceration of another Wharol factory star Paul America. The team had to wait few years to continue the movie in California where they got to find and Edie physically and mentally the end of her life.
A mix between fiction and reality using new technologies at the time with "Flashbacks" of real image of Edie Sedgwick, a minimalist scenario with delirium of the actress and psychedelics sounds.
Few days after the end of the movie Edie Sedgwick died of an overdose of barbiturate.
The movie is a poignent testimony of the actress about the danger of the disposable icons of Andy Wharol and also the "flower power" generation which ideal later revealed an unapproachable dream.
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