Should you watch Grey Gardens?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Grey Gardens
Documentary · 1976
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The sides of Grey Gardens
- A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
- Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
- Cats and raccoons in the house
Grey Gardens is good for you if…
- you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
- you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
- you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.
Grey Gardens is bad for you if…
- you need a story that goes somewhere.
- you find 1970s handheld footage dated.
About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past
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