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| ACTORS: | Edith Bouvier Beale |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, Albert Maysles |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1976 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion Collection |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Documentary |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429159125 |
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Customer Reviews of Grey Gardens - Criterion Collection
Grey Gardens--Splendid Documentary from the Maysles Bros. Possibly the greatest documentary every made, this film displays the glorious and rancorous daily life of Edith Bouvier Beale (79) and her daughter "little Edie" (56) in their crumbling 28 room mansion in East Hampton. Mother and daughter are the aunt and first cousin of the famous Bouvier, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and live a perverse and destitute existence surrounded by resident incontinent cats, wild racoons, and the odd handyman. Little Edie has turned her back on New York Society Life to live with her mother by the ocean. The two are caught in a fabulously claustrophobic love-hate drama that is enlivened by their odd choice in food (liver pate and ice cream) and Little Edie's fashion parade of window treatments transformed into turbans and sweaters reborn as skirts.
A True Documentary Classic
The old woman (Big Edie) and the her elder daughter (Little Edie), both confined to a large, old, decrept home, focused on lost memories and events that never happened.
Little Edie is largely focused on her youth, wishing that she had taken up opportunities in the past that she turned down. Her mother, Big Edie, tells her daughter that her regret over not doing things in the past is meaningless because back then, Little Edie genuinely did not want to do those things. That is perhaps one of the most philosophical moments in the documentary.
This film is very revealing, and it is a truly intimate portrayal of two women. You learn more about then perhaps than you otherwise would in a typical documentary that asks why they are important, what is their significance to their rich and well-known relative, Jackie O, and how did they end up in this situation.
This movie will be implanted in the public persona for many years to come, particularly because of the radical fashion sense of Little Edie, and also because she demonstrates that people do change their behavior, if even slightly, once a camera is nearby.
Michael Gordon
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Happened to catch this on the IFC when first released...was absolutely riveted!!! I think it holds even more meaning if you are a female.......I made my mother watch it and we could not believe the similarities altho we are not like the Beale family. (I do get out..I am a flight attendant) But my mother and I are extremely close and the "dance" those two do are strikingly familiar to us....to me what is most apparent at first glance is the despiration Edie feels about leaving, she reminds me of a person that is incarcerated..time stops for them..in their emotional, mental growth. Then it makes me angry that Big Edie could ever be so selfish as to just "take" her daughters life from her..was it out of jealousy?Was it truly out of need? Did she just give up after her husband left her? You almost feel that it was all meant to be tho, especially from the way Big Edie describes her sons, she saw them so differently than she saw Edie. And then,times were so different for women back then.Excellant movie,I am sure the Kennedy and Bouvier Families were mortified!!! But we love them!!! It would be wonderful to see such individuality in everyone!