Subject: Jacqueline Siegel, wife and co-owner of the largest house in the United States, and her family's life
Director: Lauren Greenfield
The best documentaries feel accidental, and this is because documentaries are unpredictable. Sometimes they take many years to complete, and your subjects (assuming they are people) can change. The best example is of course, Hoop Dreams, which began as a trifling look at how young high school basketball players are recruited out of inner city Chicago, and ended up examining poverty, race, sports, and the way life shapes your dreams. The Queen of Versailles examines the opposite condition - on how life lived as a dream can return to reality - but is nearly as poignant. I don't even think I can say any more without soiling the potential experience, but this tale is Shakespearean at bottom and as old as accumulated wealth is in human history.
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