Film

Grey Gardens

Name: Grey Gardens
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1976
Cast: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers, Norman Vincent Peale, Jack Helmuth

Grey Gardens is the Maysles brothers' 1975 fly-on-the-wall portrait of Edith and Edie Beale, Jackie Onassis's aunt and cousin, living in genteel squalor in a crumbling East Hampton mansion. There's no narrator, no talking-head context — just two extraordinary, combative, theatrical women performing themselves for a camera they clearly adore. It's funny, sad, uncomfortable and utterly hypnotic. For anyone who loves eccentricity that refuses to apologise for itself.

TMDb rating

7.3

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