HBO’s affectionate Faye Dunaway documentary embraces a difficult woman

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‘Faye’ reveals an actor who had much in common with her characters.

Faye Dunaway took risks, racking up three best actress Oscar nominations for playing a string of problematic women who dared the audience to have their backs. In turn, Dunaway herself was equally admired and feared, and she rarely felt the public’s warm embrace.

Later, there’s a montage of Dunaway’s addiction to lip balm, a time-wasting tic that aggravated Hawk Koch, the assistant director of “Chinatown.” Still, Koch is also the one to balance the scale with a story about the time Roman Polanski was so irritated by Dunaway’s cowlick that he ripped out her hair. Yet, Polanski’s obsessive perfectionism got him anointed as a genius.

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