Queen of Versailles

It's like a champagne bath laced with arsenic.
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

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The Queen of Versailles

Directed by lauded filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, who won the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary Film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for this film, The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With the epic proportions of a Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream. The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the biggest house in America, a 90,000 square foot palace. Over the next two years, their sprawling empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. Major changes in lifestyle and character ensue within the cross-cultural household of family members and domestic staff.

“Like a Theodore Dreiser novel for our time, infused with the vivid, vulgar spirit of reality TV. It often had the sold-out Eccles Center howling, but also has elements of profound tragedy and allegory.” (Andrew O’Hehir, Salon)
PG
Genre
Documentary
Web Site
http://www.magpict…
Runtime
100
Language
English
Director
Lauren Greenfield
FEATURED REVIEW
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times

"We went to France, and we saw Versailles" is something plenty of people can claim. But the Siegels of Orlando, subjects of the excellent and unexpectedly nuanced documentary "The Queen of Versailles," turned the royal chateau into the prototype for a dream-house project that would make Mr ...

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