Director: Laurent Bouzereau
A single extended sit-down interview forms the spine of "Faye" (2024), a 91-minute American documentary in which Faye Dunaway looks back on a career that spans decades of Hollywood highs and lows.
What is Faye about?
Rather than reconstructing her life through archival narration alone, the documentary lets Dunaway speak for herself, moving through childhood, breakout roles, and the years when she became one of the most recognizable faces in American film. Colleagues, critics and collaborators step in between her recollections, adding outside perspective on moments she describes from the inside. The film does not shy away from the harder chapters of her story, including struggles that shaped how she was written about in the press, but it frames these through her own account rather than tabloid retelling. What emerges is less a chronological biography than a portrait built from her memory of specific scenes, sets and relationships across a long working life.
Cast & crew
Faye Dunaway anchors the film in her own words, joined on screen by Mark Harris, Sharon Stone, Robin Morgan, Mickey Rourke, Liam O'Neill, Annette Insdorf and Barry Primus, each offering a different angle on her work and reputation.
Context & significance
Laurent Bouzereau, a director known for behind-the-scenes documentaries about film history, made "Faye" in 2024 as a career-spanning profile rather than a single-film retrospective. The documentary sits within a broader trend of late-career subjects narrating their own histories on camera, giving audiences a first-person account instead of a purely external one. Its release drew attention for how candidly Dunaway discusses both the acclaim and the difficulties of a long public career, offering context that outside coverage rarely captured.
Where & how to watch
"Faye" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a library curated for the Iranian diaspora and other Farsi-speaking viewers. This page is free to read without an account, and watching the film only requires signing up for a free K-Time login.