In the new HBO documentary Faye, award winning director Laurent Bouzereau tells the story of Hollywood Icon, Faye Dunaway, star of multiple award winning films such as ‘Chinatown’, ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, and ‘Network’ (in which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress).
Release Date
Directed by Laurent Bouzereau, ‘Faye’ premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and will debut Saturday, July 13 on HBO. The film will also be available to stream on Max following the HBO premiere.
Synopsis
Academy Award winning actress and multi-decade movie star, Faye Dunaway, recounts the triumphs and challenges of her illustrious career with frank candor in FAYE, the first feature documentary about the Hollywood legend. Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her struggles with mental health while confronting the double standards she was subjected to as a woman in Hollywood.
The documentary features interviews with Faye Dunaway’s son Liam Dunaway O’Neill, as well as colleagues and friends including author Mark Harris, journalist Robin Morgan, film professor Annette Insdorf, photographer and director Jerry Schatzberg, author David Itzkoff, actors Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke, and filmmaker James Gray.
Reviews
Pete Hammond wrote on a Deadline review, “You will find yourself with renewed respect for this great star after watching this film on her life. If she was indeed difficult or “complicated,” as one interviewee put it, the end results are all up on screen — a true star who really thrived in the ’70s but could have just as easily in Hollywood’s earlier years, its Golden Age.”
On a The Hollywood Reporter review, David Rooney wrote about the film, “For those of us who have loved Faye Dunaway in movies, Bouzereau’s doc will be bittersweet viewing. It re-examines her run of brilliant, blazing performances in a handful of New Hollywood classics but also leaves us to ponder how brutally she was sidelined, uncommonly so for a movie star of her stature.”
Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for Faye.