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The Queen of Versailles

Lauren Greenfield’s sharp and perceptive documentary is about as clear-eyed a portrait of the “one percent” as you’re likely to come across. Her subjects are David Seigel, the ridiculously wealthy CEO of Westgate Resorts, and his wife Jackie; the focus is initially on the construction of their new home, the largest single-family house in the country, but that project and their extravagant lifestyle is upended by the financial crisis. This “riches to rags” story is fascinating, infuriating, and enormously telling; few election-year films were more enlightening or timely.