Queenmaker: The Must-See Documentary on New York’s Elite, Available on Disney+

Available for a few weeks on Disney +, the documentary Queenmaker, the blogger from New York should appeal to fans of Gossip Girl et Inventing Anna.

It sometimes happens that certain films and series recently added to the catalog go by the wayside! However, it would be a shame not to take a look at Queenmaker, the blogger from New York, a documentary broadcast since May 17 on Disney+. Directed by LGBT filmmaker and actress Zackary Drucker, it tells the story of 18-year-old college student Morgan Olivia Rose, who started a blog in the late 2000s aimed at infiltrating New York’s elite with the aim of reveal the excesses and secrets of its actors. His blog, Park Avenue Peerage, was widely talked about and contributed to the beginnings of the digital revolution. The young man created real chaos within the worldly world of Manhattan, like all the bloggers who followed and like the great fictions Gossip Girl.

Zackary Drucker wanted to show how the worldly universe was as chic as it was dark

The director wanted to make this documentary in order to remind viewers that this period, where many changes have taken place, is not so far away. She wanted in this way, just like Morgan Olivia Rose, to reveal how much the mundane universe, where appearance took precedence, hid dark secrets. With Queenmakershe also wanted expose the sexism of the time : “This is how women were talked about and women were told to shut up. It’s crucial that women today, young women today, know that this is where that we are coming.”

The other programs in the same vein to discover on Disney+

If you like projects that deal with behind the scenes of the elite, then you should enjoy the documentary Anna Sorokin: the New York hustler. Known as “The Con artist of Soho”, she fascinated the world and scammed the highest social circles by posing as a multi-millionaire German heiress. In the biopic genre, Disney+ also makes available the story of Brooke Shields, actress, model and global superstar. Season 1 of the series is particularly interested in her transformation from a sexualized young girl to a woman who assumes her power.

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