The Museum Cinema presents the 4K restoration of I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (1996), the first feature film by director Mary Harron.
Although she is best known for her second feature film, American Psycho, Canadian director Mary Harron first made an impression with her first feature film I Shot Andy Warhol. Highly controversial, it accurately depicts the counter-culture movements of a New York in the 1960s inhabited by a lost and rebellious generation, as well as the artistic milieu that they sought to criticize.
Inspired by a true story, Lili Taylor leads an incredible set of performances as her main character; feminist activist Valerie Solanas, author of the radical anti-men manifesto, SCUM. In this film, which finally places her at the forefront, we allow her to appear as the complex person that she has always been, and that we deserve to discover.
Shocking independent film from the 90s, its attention to detail and its fidelity to the complex universe it depicts allow it to act as a real window on the 60s, and the issues that hit the United States at the time. Like its protagonist, it is still as provocative, unpredictable, while being terribly brilliant, even on the 30th anniversary of its release.
SynopsisHaving decided to abandon higher education, Valerie Solanas survives in New York as a destitute artist, but also as a sex worker and a beggar. She will befriend actress Candy Darling, star of Andy Warhol’s Factory, who will allow her to get closer to the cult pop art artist, even planning the attempted assassination.
The film is presented in the original English version.