Ciao! Manhattan is a 1972 American drama film starring Edie Sedgwick, one of Andy Warhol's Superstars. The film centers around the life of an Edie Sedgwick-esque character, the lure of addiction, and the quest for stardom in keeping with the times.
Written and directed by John Palmer and David Weisman, Ciao! Manhattan is the semi-biographical tale of 1960s counterculture icon Edie Sedgwick. Ciao! follows young Susan Superstar (Sedgwick) through h...
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Ciao! Manhattan is a 1972 American drama film starring Edie Sedgwick, one of Andy Warhol's Superstars. The film centers around the life of an Edie Sedgwick-esque character, the lure of addiction, and the quest for stardom in keeping with the times.
Written and directed by John Palmer and David Weisman, Ciao! Manhattan is the semi-biographical tale of 1960s counterculture icon Edie Sedgwick. Ciao! follows young Susan Superstar (Sedgwick) through her tumultuous party years in Manhattan as one of Warhol's Superstars. Through actual audio recordings of Sedgwick's account of her time in Warhol's Factory in New York City, paired with clips from the original unfinished script started in 1967, Ciao! captures the complete deterioration of Sedgwick's fictional alter-ego. The striking similarities between Sedgwick and Susan's life story, especially when recounted by Sedgwick in the midst of drug-induced audio interviews, make the film's candid depiction of excess and celebrity especially...
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