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The Queen of Versailles

  • 2012
  • PG
  • 1h 43min
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The Queen of Versailles (2012)
A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis.
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Una pareja de multimillonarios inicia la construcción de una mansión inspirada en Versalles. Durante los dos años siguientes, su imperio, alimentado por la burbuja inmobiliaria y el dinero b... Leer todoUna pareja de multimillonarios inicia la construcción de una mansión inspirada en Versalles. Durante los dos años siguientes, su imperio, alimentado por la burbuja inmobiliaria y el dinero barato, se tambalea debido a la crisis económica.Una pareja de multimillonarios inicia la construcción de una mansión inspirada en Versalles. Durante los dos años siguientes, su imperio, alimentado por la burbuja inmobiliaria y el dinero barato, se tambalea debido a la crisis económica.

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    • Lauren Greenfield
  • Elenco
    • Jaqueline Siegel
    • David Siegel
    • Lorraine Barrett
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Lauren Greenfield
    • Elenco
      • Jaqueline Siegel
      • David Siegel
      • Lorraine Barrett
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    • 128Opiniones de los críticos
    • 80Metascore
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      • 8 premios ganados y 27 nominaciones en total

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    Jaqueline Siegel
    Jaqueline Siegel
    • Self
    • (as Jackie Siegel)
    David Siegel
    David Siegel
    • Self
    Lorraine Barrett
    • Self - Real Estate Agent
    June Downs
    • Self - Next Door Neighbor
    Phillip Froehlich
    • Self - Vice President, West Resorts
    Marissa Gaspay
    • Self - Nanny
    Tina Martinez
    • Self - High School Friend
    Virginia Nebab
    • Self - Nanny
    Jonquil Peed
    • Self - Niece
    • (as Jonquil)
    Wendy Ponce
    • Self - Housekeeper
    Richard Siegel
    • Self - Son
    Victoria Siegel
    • Self - Daughter
    Katie Stam
    • Self - Miss America
    Terry Vaughn
    • Self - Westgate Employee
    Cliff Wright
    • Self - Limo Driver
    Alyse Zwick
    • Self - Miss New York 2009
    George W. Bush
    George W. Bush
    • Self
    • (material de archivo)
    • (sin créditos)
    Laura Bush
    Laura Bush
    • Self
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      • Lauren Greenfield
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    8mailjohnw

    Good documentary about despicable peep

    You have to laff when the "Queen"--often seemingly desperate to kiss her AH husband into some sort of affectionate submission (she always fails to receive anything other than an aggressively polite peck, which seems more like a 'kiss-off')-- the "Queen" plays the victim card, due to the financial upheaval in 2008. She's truly sickening, despite her "humble" roots. Were these pigs ever in real jeopardy? Well, their "conspicuous consumption, had to be "downsized" from poisonous excess to sheer madness, and meanwhile, the wonderful housekeeper has suffered and struggled to meet her own dreams--and you get the feeling she's cast her lot in with the wrong people. Fascinating and disgusting, see it.
    8rooprect

    A great documentary, for reasons you might not expect

    After reading the top 2 IMDb reviews for this documentary using words like "appalling", "revolting", "tasteless", "classless" and everything short of "Nazi" to describe the subjects, I figured this would be a fun way to forget my own financial inadequacies by relishing in the multi-million dollar tragedy of a bunch of monsters who deserve to suck slime. So with that in mind I poured myself a cup of fresh blood and got my vampire on.

    Immediately I was "disappointed" because, aside from having a pair of ivory tusks displayed in their living room, these people didn't display anything worthy of being flogged publicly as I was led to believe. Sure, their lifestyle was extravagant to a fault. But, ask any third-world kid who can't afford a pair of shoes, and you'll learn that extravagance is relative. No matter, thought I, wiping some drool off my non-designer jeans, this show is just getting started; I'm sure they'll spit on a few beggars in good time!

    Actually quite the opposite. As the family begins to realize it's financial decay, instead of telling the laid-off employees to eat cake, Jackie actually started donating goods and volunteering at a local charity for their benefit. Aw man, way to kill a good feeding frenzy, thought I. Well, at least I can still hate her for all the excessive cosmetic treatments she keeps getting for her own vanity. Oops, wrong again. Those of us paying attention soon realize that she's not doing it for sheer vanity's sake but to try to please her husband as psychologically she seems insecure in that department. And as we learn more about the titular Queen of Versailles, we see many parallels between her and the other unfortunate queen, Marie Antoinette in her paper mâché marriage to Louis XVI. Yes, the interpersonal drama runs thick, between all family members in different ways. And just as the French eventually realized that they maybe went a little too far with that whole guillotine thing, you see that the Siegels, while guilty of clueless indulgence yes, don't nevessarily deserve to get their financial heads lopped off. These people are not aberrations of humankind as you'd been led to believe by some reviews, but instead, this is the story of a normal American family that has been subjected to abnormal extremes.

    True, the husband (a man of 1 emotion: stoic), did at one point talk about how he personally got Bush re-elected by means that "may not have been legal", but he immediately counters it with "but then we got involved in this Iraqi War, so maybe I didn't do that much good after all." That statement is the key to understanding this powerful documentary. It is NOT a spectacle of seeing Emperors thrown to the lions. Rather, it is a very Faustian tale of pride and arrogance that gets the best of humans, and humans eventually accepting or at least admitting to the possibility that they were wrong. I'm talking about all humans, not just these people.

    I have to hand it to the tragic family for bearing their downfall much more nobly than their rise. In the end (especially after watching the deleted scenes showing more of their human side), I felt good--not because I had just witnessed a gruesome car crash like other viewers, but because these people (except maybe 1 individual? I won't spoil) had all evolved into something better.

    In that respect, this is a very complex story which requires your full attention. It's not like a sporting event that has 1 good guy, 1 bad guy and 1 outcome. It's really one of the best illustrations of pride under pressure. And although my greatest financial hurdle consists of how to pay my $75 parking ticket, I can somehow associate with these ex-billionaires on how money, and lack thereof, changes us all.
    cherold

    The struggle of very rich people forced to live like sort of rich people

    There is a famous, though fictional, exchange in which F. Scott Fitzgerald says "The rich are different from you and I" and Hemingway replies, "Yes, they have more money." That quote suits this film's central character, Jackie, whose tendency towards excess is magnified to an insane level by seemingly limitless wealth.

    The movie is about how Jackie, her tycoon husband David and their children and employees deal with a crushing recession that forces them to struggle to live within their means.

    Even though they are never broke, they genuinely do struggle because Jackie has satisfied too many whims, filling her house with pets and children and furniture and other things that require servants and lavish spending to keep going.

    The movie could easily have caricatured Jackie, whose giant fake breasts and obsessive shopping are qualities that could make her seem white trash, but she comes across as a reasonably intelligent, generally nice person who simply has no concept of "enough." If she were poor she would probably be in debt because she collected memorial plates or something, but because she's rich she has collected everything.

    David is less likable, a cold, brusque businessman with a sense of entitlement. As the movie begins he shows overwhelming confidence; it's easy to see how the sort of person who can build up a big business is the sort of person who never has insecure thoughts like, "did my wife marry me for my money." David claims in the movie to have personally made GW Bush president, but even though he expresses doubt about whether that was a good idea, because of the wars that resulted, after this movie came out he threatened his employees with job loss if Obama beat Romney, so I'd say he is as awful as he seems in the movie.

    One of the best qualities of this movie is how non-judgmental it is. It shows its characters being both thoughtless and thoughtful and it gives them a chance to represent themselves to the camera; it's a movie that has no interest in being a hatchet job. At the same time, it juxtaposes their problems with those of one of their nanny's, whose situation is far sadder; it also has no interest in being a whitewash.

    The even-handedness of this film means you are free to see the characters as you like. Some reviewers here reacted very differently from me, seeing David as a hard working businessman stuck with a white trash gold digger, or seeing them both as odious monsters. If you hate the rich, that will probably be your reaction, but if you *are* the rich, you would probably see this as a reasonable portrayal. In fact, if you're rich enough you probably wouldn't see anything wrong with the way they live. (Rich people are different than you and I; they think living like millionaires is normal.)

    Overall this is a very engrossing and admirable film that made me feel some sympathy for people who, in the natural order of things, I would consider leeches on the belly of America.
    7Lejink

    American nightmare

    I normally run a mile from real-life documentaries like this but ghoulishly fascinated by the story-line here, I found myself rubber-necking this car-crash of a family saga from start to finish. An allegory of the burst bubble of the latter-day "greed is good" dynasty, we follow the progress of billionaire David Siegel's self-confessed riches to rags story as he and his sprawling, dysfunctional family struggle to adjust to rain after the sunshine years as his billion-dollar timeshare empire crumbles as the credit crunch bites.

    So, instead of the no doubt originally intended homage to Mammon, as Siegel and his plastic, boob-enhanced ex-Mrs America "trophy-wife" (named as such by her own daughter!) airily plan to build the biggest private house in America (going from a mere 18 to 30 bathrooms in the process), we get a much darker tale, as Siegel retreats away in his dressing-gown from his young family into his den, desperately making calls which he hopes will return his opulent lifestyle to him and his family.

    His wife, Jacqueline, the erstwhile title character of the movie is similarly seen changing from boasting about wearing ostrich-feather Gucci pants to suffering her husband's testiness over leaving too many house-lights on, while still undergoing her periodic face-peel and Botox injections, hardening her face into a mask, ill-serving the emotional traumas she's obviously experiencing.

    As a modern-day morality tale on the old maxim of be careful what you wish for, it could hardly be bettered as not one of "David's Friends", prominently pictured in his household come to his rescue as his business empire crumbles and leaves his prestigious West Gates luxury building in Las Vegas as another white elephant totem to excess.

    As usual with American documentaries like this, it's hard to take your eyes off the mess you're witnessing. The film doesn't seek to pity the family's plight but does inadvertently lampoon its subject although it has to be said most of the damage is self-inflicted.

    Proof, if it were still needed, that pride surely comes before a fall, although here the fall is cliff-sized.
    8nikatnyte

    A completely revolting couple

    I knew the back story to "Queen of Versailles" before I saw it, but I wasn't prepared for the extreme revulsion I felt for these characters, particularly David Segal. These folks are poster children for the worst extremes of our materialistic, narcissistic culture. Their values are money, ostentation, self-aggrandizement, acquisition and mindless hedonism. They are venomous leeches on society.

    Yet I felt pity for them as well, particularly Jackie. She's something of an enigma. She boasts about getting an engineering degree so she wouldn't have to work as someone's assistant, yet she mostly devotes herself to keeping young-looking and voluptuous (those breasts of hers deserve some sort of special effects award) so she can snag and keep a rich hubby. As her world starts to fall apart around her, she begins to have some insights about what life is really about (not building the world's biggest house), yet still can't abandon her out-of-control shopping sprees or torturous visits to the beauty clinic.

    The children, also, seem to be far more aware than their parents of the emptiness and ridiculousness of their lifestyle.

    Fortunately, I saw very little of myself in this abhorrent couple, but I did see some similarities to friends and family. Everyone is susceptible to greed and an inflated sense of self. This film shows what happens when that proceeds unchecked and fueled by obscene wealth.

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      With the upturn in the economy, the Siegels now completely own the Versailles property. It is now the fourth most expensive house in the United States.
    • Citas

      Lauren Greenfield: How are you personally responsible for the re-election of George Bush?

      David Siegel: I'd rather not say because it may not necessarily have been legal.

    • Conexiones
      Featured in De wereld draait door: Episode #8.55 (2012)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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      Written by Johnny Marks

      Performed by Marissa Gaspay

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 16 de agosto de 2014 (Japón)
    • Países de origen
      • Estados Unidos
      • Países Bajos
      • Reino Unido
      • Dinamarca
    • Sitios oficiales
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Idiomas
      • Inglés
      • Francés
    • También se conoce como
      • Nữ hoàng Versailles
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos
    • Productoras
      • Evergreen Pictures
      • BBC Storyville
      • Impact Partners
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    • Presupuesto
      • USD 1,000,000 (estimado)
    • Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 2,401,999
    • Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 51,326
      • 22 jul 2012
    • Total a nivel mundial
      • USD 2,495,706
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      • 1h 43min(103 min)
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