Arts & Entertainment
Tickets on sale for The Queen of Versailles
The movie screens Thurs. Oct. 4, but tickets must be purchased in advance online (and are expected to sell out).
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is an immensely entertaining documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis.
Rated 95% fresh by critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a critics pick in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
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"MASTERFUL. A WICKEDLY FUNNY ALLEGORY ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM." (Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, The Huffington Post)
“A SPRAWLING, RICHLY DETAILED STUDY OF AMBITION, DESIRE AND THE WILD SWINGS OF FORTUNE. A gaudy guilty pleasure that is also a piece of trenchant social criticism. If this film is a portrait, it is also a mirror.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times
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“JAW-DROPPING. EYE-OPENING. A FILMMAKING COUP. It combines the soul-revealing artistry of great portraiture and the head-shaking revelations of solid investigative reporting.” – Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
"BEAUTIFULLY CONSTRUCTED AND FREQUENTLY UPROARIOUS." – Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
An after-film discussion will be led by Joshua Peck for those who wish to stay. Joshua is a film critic and programmer for an historical art theatre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who currently runs a free film series at the Palos Verdes Library, showing foreign and independent films (on dvd) followed by a discussion.