Faye

The documentary covers Faye Dunaway's career and life. It starts with her years in the theatre, gives her breakthrough at the end of the sixties, the major films of the seventies and the period that followed. She speaks to camera, along with her family, colleagues and directors she worked with. Laurent Bouzereau directs. It was released in 2024. The most striking passage is what Dunaway says about herself. She takes up her reputation as difficult on set and does not deny it; she also says she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder years later and is speaking about it openly for the first time. The narrative gives the difference of gender in the industry directly: the same behaviour counted as resolve in men and as being impossible in women. The archive is extensive; set footage, screen tests and television programmes of the period are used. The documentary was made with Dunaway's participation and the critical distance is limited for that reason; some periods are passed over quickly. The decline in her work in the second half of her career and its reasons are not fully opened. Who it is for: viewers who follow Hollywood history and documentaries about actors. Who it is not for: the structure is linear and familiar, the critical content is weak, and most of the films are treated thinly.