Grey Gardens

Synopsis: An impossibly intimate, absorbing insight into the lives of two eccentric and reclusive women: Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie. As aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis, "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" live together as high-society dropouts in a squalid mansion in wealthy East Hampton. What was once a grand summer residence has been reduced to a fortress of fleas, feral cats, and filth, the gardens long gone to seed and Big Edie and Little Edie confined to just a few of the twenty-eight rooms.
Together they invent a world with their house as a stage where life’s disappointments and pleasures are recycled into riveting performances, perfomances which have gone on to earn Little Edie’s reputation as a fashion genius and philosopher queen. This cult classic, which has inspired a current Broadway show, a centre page fashion spread in both Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and a Hollywood "remake" - prompted the intervention of Jackie O. to save the couple from a hazardous health eviction order and any further "embarrassment" for the family.
Language: English (United States)
Country: United States
Year of production: 1976
Subjects: Film studies; Women’s studies
Keywords: experimental film & video; fashion; women

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