Faye

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Faye

2024,

Biography/

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In FAYE, the first feature documentary of the Hollywood legend, Academy Award®-winning actress Faye Dunaway candidly discusses the triumphs and challenges of her illustrious career, with breakthrough, Academy Award®-nominated roles in "Bonnie & Clyde," "Chinatown," and "Network" -- for which she won Best Actress in 1977 -- while also reflecting on the film "Mommie Dearest," which she views as a critical career misstep. Through those reflections, she courageously explores personal discoveries including her struggles with mental health issues and bipolar disorder, her family history growing up in a small town in Florida, and how the intensity of the characters she played still impacts who she is today. In addition to Faye, the film features interviews with her son Liam Dunaway O'Neill, as well as her colleagues and friends including Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, and James Gray.

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An unapologetic celebration of a hallowed actor renowned for being both brilliant and tempestuous, Faye is a must-watch for fans of the incomparable Dunaway.

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Camilla Long

The Times (UK)

Aug 27, 2024

To say it was a damning illustration of how Hollywood sucks up and spits out even its biggest stars would be to understate how many of her friends, drowned in berets, cravats, titfers and competitive scarves, looked irretrievably flattened...

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Dan Einav

Financial Times

Aug 22, 2024

3/5

[Faye] doesn’t shirk accountability or invalidate the experiences of co-stars who say they feared her, but invites a reappraisal of the sexist notion that she was a belligerent prima donna.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Aug 19, 2024

3/5

Respectful if not revelatory, Bouzereau’s film gives her legacy a massage, gently probing, but also leaving her in peace.

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Chris Feil

The Daily Beast

Jun 5, 2025

In dodging the audience’s most obvious questions, the film only creates more. At this point in her career and diagnosis, it’s understandable that Dunaway would not wish to stoke the embers of past fires, but this leaves Faye feeling remarkably incomplete.

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Hayley Croke

Loud and Clear Reviews

Oct 25, 2024

3.5/5

Faye is a sensitive character study on an acting legend. While Bouzereau’s decision-making feels safe, and even at times dull, there is an understanding after getting to the core of who Faye Dunaway is as to why.

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Chance Solem-Pfeifer

Willamette Week

Aug 21, 2024

Her work was nothing short of an obsession, but there are too few moments of fellow artists speaking directly about its particulars—the sizzling rage, agony and intelligence that made her an icon.

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Laurent Bouzereau

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Faye Dunaway

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Liam Dunaway O'Neill

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Sharon Stone

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Mickey Rourke

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James Gray

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Synopsis

In FAYE, the first feature documentary of the Hollywood legend, Academy Award®-winning actress Faye Dunaway candidly discusses the triumphs and challenges of her illustrious career, with breakthrough, Academy Award®-nominated roles in "Bonnie & Clyde," "Chinatown," and "Network" -- for which she won Best Actress in 1977 -- while also reflecting on the film "Mommie Dearest," which she views as a critical career misstep. Through those reflections, she courageously explores personal discoveries including her struggles with mental health issues and bipolar disorder, her family history growing up in a small town in Florida, and how the intensity of the characters she played still impacts who she is today. In addition to Faye, the film features interviews with her son Liam Dunaway O'Neill, as well as her colleagues and friends including Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, and James Gray.

Director: Laurent Bouzereau
Producer: Laurent Bouzereau, Markus Keith, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Original Language: English

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