The star of “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Network” gets a well-deserved career retrospective, even if it avoids most of the hard questions and only glances at her notorious reputation.
Few stars have shone as brightly as Faye Dunaway. At her peak in the 1970s, Dunaway was a leading light in landmark films including
, which won her an Oscar. Her work generated controversy, but so did her widely reported offscreen volatility. When you talk about Dunaway, you expect thrilling drama, whether on or off screen. So she is the last Hollywood icon you’d expect to headline a documentary as flavorless aspaints by numbers, and does not do justice to Dunaway’s singular talent and persona. It doesn’t help thatthat spent hours unpacking the lives of movie meganames. At a brief 90 minutes, the documentary never gives itself enough breathing room to allow us into Dunaway’s head between the expected career highlights.
The film’s most significant reveal is Dunaway’s bipolar diagnosis, something broached almost as vaguely as the accusations of bad behavior against her. In discussing the situation around her firing from, her son Liam O’Neill qualifies her behavior as “her demons got ahold of her” without onscreen follow-up questioning from director Laurent Bouzereau or direct mention of the actress’s actions.More shockingly, the documentary doesn’t do justice to the power of Dunaway’s talent.
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
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