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I SHOT ANDY WARHOL
Synopsis
1968-Valérie Solanas, a radical lesbian and destitute writer lives on succession of city rooftops and in cheap hotels. Through her twilight world acquaintances she gets a foot in the door of Andy Warhol's 'Factory' where she presents a copy of her play "Up Your Ass" to him. At the same time she meets the publisher of subversive literature, Maurice Girodias. Waiting for word from Warhol, Solanas takes to the streets, selling copies of her radical feminist diatribe SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) and, more successfully, selling her body. Solanas pleads with Warhol to produce her play but her disruptive behaviour only alienates the artists and excommunicates her from the zoned-out Factory crowd. Studying her publishing contract with Girodias, Solanas develops the paranoid fantasy that both Girodias and Warhol are conspiring against her. Her only option is to shoot Andy Warhol, in which she thus achieves her own 15 minutes of fame.
Credits
- Thérèse DEPREZ - Set Designer
- Mary HARRON - Director
- Mary HARRON - Screenplay
- Dan MINAHAN - Screenplay
- Ellen KURAS - Cinematography
- John CALE - Music
- Keith REAMER - Film Editor
Actors
The Official Selection 1996
Un Certain Regard
- BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
- BUENOS AIRES VICE VERSA
- COMPAGNA DI VIAGGIO
- CONTE D'ÉTÉ
- CWAL
- FEW OF US
- FOURBI
- GABBEH
- HAIFA
- I SHOT ANDY WARHOL
- IRMA VEP
- LA BOUCHE DE JEAN-PIERRE
- LOOKING FOR RICHARD
- LOVE SERENADE
- LULU
- MOSSANE
- NO WAY TO FORGET
- PASTS
- PRAMIS
- SOME MOTHER'S SON
- SYDNEY
- THE PALLBEARER
- THE PILLOW BOOK
- THE WASTE LAND
- UN SAMEDI SUR LA TERRE