‘Faye’ Review: The Legendary Dunaway Reveals All About Co-Stars, Lovers, Movies & Her Bipolar Disorder In Compelling HBO Documentary – Cannes Film Festival
deadline.comLate in the highly entertaining and enlightening new HBO Documentary Films movie on the life and career of Faye Dunaway we learn how much this iconic star just loves coming to the Cannes Film Festival. “Just about every year,” she says not only for the world’s best films but also to immerse herself in all aspects of filmmaking.
In fact I have seen her many times just soaking it all up cinematically both here in Cannes and Telluride to name two fests.
So it seems appropriate that the Cannes Classics section would be the place for the World Premiere Wednesday night (in the presence of Dunaway as the French like to call it) of this terrific new docu in which Dunaway pretty much tells it all straight about her life, loves, desires, ambitions, movies, co-stars, depression, controversies, family, and hopes for the future in a profession she says she can’t imagine not working in.
Going into it I didn’t know what to expect, but what I got was a surprising forthright and honest account of someone, as it is put in the film, “started out as a normal person wanting to be famous, and ended up as a famous person wanting to be normal”.
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