Ciao! Manhattan
★ 5.5 · 1973 · 84m · Documentary · Drama
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
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