THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES- Port Jefferson Documentary Series

Winner of the Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES
has the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy. The film follows billionaires Jackie and David Siegel’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of the American dream. The saga opens on the 
triumphant construction of the biggest house in America, a sprawling 90,000-square-foot mansion inspired 
by Versailles. Since a booming time-share business built on the real-estate bubble is financing the “largest house in America,” the economic crisis of 2008 brings progress to a halt and seals the fate of its owners. We witness the impact of this turn of fortune over the next two years in a riveting film fraught with delusion, 
denial and self-effacing humor. 

The New York Times called THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES “a gaudy guilty pleasure that is also a piece of trenchant social criticism. A sprawling, richly detailed study of ambition, desire and the wild swings of fortune. If this film is a portrait, it is also a mirror.”

The Port Jefferson Documentary Series, sponsored by the Greater Port Jefferson~ Northern Brookhaven Arts Council, brings directors, stars, or experts for each film into the theater for an up-close and personal question
and answer session. The guest speaker for this screening will be Professor Margot Palermo, Business Honors Program Director, Stony Brook University