HBO’s Faye documentary provides an in-depth look at the life and career of legendary actress Faye Dunaway. The documentary, directed and produced by Laurent Bouzereau (Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind), debuted at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and sits at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Dunaway participates in the documentary along with her son Liam Dunaway O’Neill, author Mark Harris, journalist Robin Morgan, film professor Annette Insdorf, and photographer and director Jerry Schatzberg. Author David Itzkoff, filmmaker James Gray, and actors Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke also discuss Dunaway.
Markus Keith, Justin Falvey, and Darryl Frank serve as producers, with HBO’s Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Sara Rodriguez executive producing. The doc is an Amblin Documentaries Production in association with Nedland Media.
HBO’s set a Saturday, July 13, 2024 premiere date.
HBO released this lengthy synopsis of the first-ever Faye Dunaway documentary:
“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.
Growing up as Dorothy Faye Dunaway, the army child of a father who struggled with alcoholism and raised predominantly by her single mother, Dunaway escaped into the world of acting, finding mentors in director Elia Kazan and playwright William Alfred, whose play Hogan’s Goat helped launch her career in 1965. In Faye, the three-time Academy Award-nominated actor – she would win for 1976’s Network – explores the personal trajectory of her life in concert with her storied career.
Many of her film roles seem to reflect aspects of Faye’s own personality and the social climate in which they were made, including Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, and Network, a film which drew criticism, but also praise, for Dunaway’s portrayal of a headstrong, unsympathetic television producer – criticisms that were also leveled at Dunaway for her reputation as a ‘difficult’ artist to work with. Speaking candidly about her struggles with alcoholism and bipolar disorder, her love affairs, and the joys of motherhood, Dunaway also reflects on her role in Mommie Dearest, the infamous 1981 movie that was a popular success but threatened to destroy her career.
With her on-screen elegance and sense of fashion, she became a style icon and continues to inspire and influence fashion trends today. Fiercely independent and determined to develop her own professional opportunities into the 1990s and 2000s, but at times thwarted by her own reputation and demons, Faye serves as a reminder of Dunaway’s singular ability to inspire generations of filmmakers and actors with her enduring screen charisma and film oeuvre.”
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