$12 General Admission, $7 Member
Doors Open for admissions 30 min. prior to screening buy Tickets at center or online
The filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield, will be conducting a Q&A after the screening.
Don’t forget to come to her photography workshop on August 1 and a screening of her other film, Thin, on August 2.
David Siegel grew his enormous wealth in the time-share business. He felt he was doing much more than selling vacations: he was providing a view into the world of the affluent, to those who could otherwise not afford it. This meant his customers handing over their credit cards in exchange for a few days in remarkably opulent apartments. While giving them a glimpse of what life could be with enough money, Siegel was building his own private Xanadu in Florida. Then comes the sub-prime mortgage collapse. The Queen of Versailles documents, with miraculous compassion, the decline of an all-too American family whose ambitions are cut down to size by the exposure of the falsehood which underlies their way of life: the American Dream when paid for on credit.
“It’s like a champagne bath laced with arsenic.”
–Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
“An indelible portrait of an American family at its most blithely macabre.”
–Michael Phillips, The Chicgo tribune
