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Faye (2024)

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A so-so biopic of Faye Dunaway. It seems like her career got very derailed by Mommie Dearest (1981), a Joan Crawford biopic directed by Frank Perry. I learnt about a few of her earliest projects and there's a chance she did something worthwhile in the 2000s. She doesn't share a lot of herself here; the director basically owns to the current-day interview being overly thin by including many older ones, and she's never very eloquent. She expressed a wider emotional range in Puzzle of a Downfall Child. The time would have been better spent with one of her movies; I rewatched Chinatown.