Editing Ciao! Manhattan (section)

==Overview==
''Ciao! Manhattan'' is the semi-biographical tale of 1960s [[Counterculture|counterculture icon]] Edie Sedgwick.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Killen |first1=Andreas |title=1973 nervous breakdown : Watergate, Warhol, and the birth of post-sixties America |date=2006 |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=New York |isbn=978-1-59691-059-1}}</ref> The film 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 [[The Factory|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 haunting.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mazzocco |first1=Robert |title=Dancing on the Titanic |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/02/07/dancing-on-the-titanic/ |website=The New York Review |access-date=24 July 2024}}</ref> The film is dedicated to the memory of Sedgwick and ends with the headlines announcing Sedgwick's (not Susan Superstar's) death, thus inseparably associating the fictional and the genuine figure.