HBO’s Faye Dunaway Documentary Leans Into Her Difficult Reputation: ‘This Isn’t a Vanity Piece’
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Celebrity documentaries are a dime a dozen these days. But celebrity docus that don’t serve as an infomercial for a star are rare.
Laurent Bouzereau‘s HBO documentary “Faye,” about Faye Dunaway, is one of those rare celebrity docus. Instead of avoiding Dunaway’s demons, Bouzereau dives right into them.
In the first minute of the docu Dunaway tells the director, “Can we shoot? We need to shoot. I’m here now. C’mon. I really would like to shoot.” Minutes later Bouzereau cuts to the infamous “Tonight Show” clip where Johnny Carson asks Bette Davis who she would never want to work with again and she replies, “Faye Dunaway.
Everybody who you put in this chair would tell you the exact same thing.” (Dunaway and Davis co-starred in the 1976 TV film”The Disappearance of Aimee.”) It’s a refreshing start to celeb driven doc.
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