Hope Ms Dunaway returns to screen acting - Is a quality Joni Mitchell biopic script around?
What follows are more reflections on the film than a review.
As I began watching, the question arose: Huh, why isn't Faye Dunaway acting anymore? Or have I just missed noticing her?
The film provides several probable answers without specifying an answer to my question (or explicitly raising it), which I won't spoil.
There is honesty throughout, without indulging in "hard-hitting" expose style journalism. As feature-length documentaries do, it touches on a great deal with moments of some insight, but not deep examination.
I appreciate getting to know better a personality I only understood through viewing their work (mostly as a much younger, less educated man) or through the sensationalizing lens of celebrity media "reporting" in the 70s.
The documentary seemed to me to raise a new unanswered question: What show might we yet see Ms Dunaway in?
And (this is not a film spoiler, just a projection of thoughts I brought as a viewer near the end of the film) the last half dozen views we have of Ms Dunaway made me think of a resemblance she has to Joni Mitchell. Might a quality Joni Mitchell biopic script be making the rounds? Maybe one that focuses on Joni's years after her major Pop success years, or that enables Dunaway to share the role with someone playing Joni's younger years?
It's just an idea I want to put out there.
As I began watching, the question arose: Huh, why isn't Faye Dunaway acting anymore? Or have I just missed noticing her?
The film provides several probable answers without specifying an answer to my question (or explicitly raising it), which I won't spoil.
There is honesty throughout, without indulging in "hard-hitting" expose style journalism. As feature-length documentaries do, it touches on a great deal with moments of some insight, but not deep examination.
I appreciate getting to know better a personality I only understood through viewing their work (mostly as a much younger, less educated man) or through the sensationalizing lens of celebrity media "reporting" in the 70s.
The documentary seemed to me to raise a new unanswered question: What show might we yet see Ms Dunaway in?
And (this is not a film spoiler, just a projection of thoughts I brought as a viewer near the end of the film) the last half dozen views we have of Ms Dunaway made me think of a resemblance she has to Joni Mitchell. Might a quality Joni Mitchell biopic script be making the rounds? Maybe one that focuses on Joni's years after her major Pop success years, or that enables Dunaway to share the role with someone playing Joni's younger years?
It's just an idea I want to put out there.
- bearealman
- Aug 17, 2024