Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 5/30] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: In many ways, The Queen of Versailles could be about an allegory about America itself…
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A documentary about a rich couple riding the waves of wealth and greed and then plunging downwards.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: It would be easy to look at this with smug satisfaction, but director Lauren Greenfield is impassive.
- Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
- Excerpt: A documentary about the ups, downs, and mostly ups of being too wealthy to garner sympathy.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Extravagant yet surprisingly compassionate, it’s a unique chronicle of the collapse of the real estate market.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Ends up an ever less slightly ungenerous look at the .01 percent than it might have been absent the 2008 financial crash, because even the uberwealthy get stressed when money gets tight. But this is still a brutal film from many angles.
- Craig Kennedy @ Living in Cinema
- Excerpt: Far more than just a reality TV expose of people with too much money, Lauren Greenfield’s documentary asks everyone – rich, poor or in the middle – to look at themselves and to think about the things that are really important.
- Dan Lybarger @ KCActive.com
- Excerpt: Many of us fantasize about the day when we become so rich that we’ll never have to worry about paying bills or keeping bankers at bay. “The Queen of Versailles” is a thoroughly entertaining but sobering reminder that this scenario is potentially more unrealistic than “The Lord of the Rings.”
- Piers Marchant @ Sweet Smell of Success
- Excerpt: Part reality series/part dissection of American hubris, plus a whole bunch of stuffed dogs.
- Mark Pfeiffer @ Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “The Queen of Versailles” inadvertently examines yet another angle on the methods with which banks have robbed America of every nickel and dime it once had.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guy’s Opinion
