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Ciao! Manhattan

1973 · 1h 24m · R Documentary, Drama
Directed by David Weisman , John Palmer

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Warhol superstar and icon of sixties bohemia Edie Sedgwick delivers her final performance in this semiautobiographical look at the price of fame. Fiction and documentary—including snippets from Sedgwick’s own audio dairies—mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar (Sedgwick), a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral. Released after her death from an overdose of barbiturates, CIAO! MANHATTAN endures as a testament to Sedgwick’s unique magnetism and as a haunting elegy for the counterculture she embodied.

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Monotonous and nearly incomprehensible.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

Two attempts at a movie spliced uneasily into one.

Martin Hoyle, Time Out
Rotten

At bottom Ciao! Manhattan is cruel exploitation -- though the film is dedicated to Miss Sedgwick's memory, an ultimate indignity.

Roger Greenspun, New York Times
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You'll hate yourself in the morning, but you'll sit through it.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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