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This movie is beautiful in so many ways. Watch this without judgement and prepare to be inspired...and learn a thing or two. Everytime I come back to it I leave feeling something new. This 2 Disc set is perfect as Grey Gardens alone leaves you asking for more...now youve got it!
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"Grey Gardens" is a fascinating,disturbing look into the daily life of Jackie O's aunt and cousin--Edith Bouvier Beale and Little Edie. While people associate the Hamptons with luxury, the pair live in a dilapidated mansion in East Hampton, in squalor and poverty. It was a scandal in 1973 when the Beales' life was revealed. Not long after that, the Maysles brothers decided to chronicle their lives.
"Grey Gardens" is an almost reality TV-like journey into a dysfunctional,codependent mother/daughter relationship. Edith was once a famous,beautiful socialite. Edie planned on having a dancing career on Broadway; millionaire Paul Getty once proposed to her. Now, they live squabbling, reminiscing, in an alternate reality of their own. Their glory days long behind them, they are stuck in nostalgia.
"Grey Gardens" is heartbreaking, poignant, and riveting. It's a true classic.
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Grey Gardens was initialy intended to be a documentary film on the Bouvier family, the ancestors of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and her sister Lee Radziwill. However, after being introduced to Edith Bouvier Beale (Jackie's father "Black Jack's" sister) and her daughter (Jackie's first cousin), the focus changed ... to a story that would have been all-but-impossible for a documentary filmmaker to walk away from, even over the protests of family members.
The Beales, mother and daughter (Edie and "Little" Edie), were at one time beautiful, no doubt fashionable, wealthy, prominent members of high society, with a large mansion, "Grey Gardens," full of appropriate possessions to match. Unfortunately, Mr. Beale's death (I didn't catch when but it had to have been many years earlier) led them into a year-by-year, seemingly never-ending spiral of increasing pathetic physical ruin and personal dispair.
By the time of the documentary, they have long-since lost the ability to care for the mansion, it's possessions, themselves or their health. They have effectively been removed from current reality and exist almost entirely amid memories, many very clear to both, some with recriminations and lots with "if only's." They have seemingly lost all but perfunctory contact with their family (a brother of Edith's is said to pay the taxes) and have no visible source of income. And, seemingly as a result of the situation, have descended into a completely self-absorbed, mutually accusatory / codependent relationship, possibly diagnosable as some form of mental illness for one or both.
A really difficult, truly sad but sometimes very funny situation, made poignant by their memories of what was and by implication what could have been. In some ways they may be seen as heroic, still able to laugh under the appalling circumstances. Undoubtedly many controversial questions could be asked of the Beale's, the family, the filmmakers, the government, and society. Worth watching and thinking about from lots of viewpoints ... well done.
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You seriously cannot script this stuff.
I like weird s**t! What can I say?! Thanks to parents with a dry sense of humor I grew up loving all things 'odd'.
When my boyfriend brought this home and said: "You need to watch this...it's right up your alley!" I was like: eh! ( I don't like it when people recommend things to me - don't ask me why, it's just a weird thing i have!)
Anyway, I read the back of the cover and was a little intrigued...I'm not going to lie. So we put it on and OMFG! These woman are f#$%ing amazing! They are cookoo and eccentric and all those things I love immensely!
I didn't want it to end. And i couldn't believe I had not come accross it early. I feel like 27 yrs of my life have just passed me by with no real meaning.
I have never said the words: Seriously?! Is she f#$%ing for real...I LOVE HER!
Edie is amazing. I am in awe of these women.
This is now my all-time favourite documentary.
Now i don't say this very often, but : YOU MUST WATCH THIS IF IT IS THE LAST THING YOU DO!
You cannot go through life without having seen these women in action..
Go and buy it right now...RIGHT NOW! I'm watching you
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They used to be part of the rich crowd, now they live in a dilapidated mansion that's literally falling apart. I mean racoons are jumping through the open walls, eating off their floors, & chumping on the dry cat food littered there. Cats are everywhere too and they poop and pee anywhere they want, on the mother's bed, behind the paintings, etc.
How did these two people end up with a life like this? This movie tells...
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