Grey Gardens – 1975
Directors
Ellen Hovde
Albert Maysles

Cast
Edith Bouvier Beale
Edith ‘Little Edie’ Bouvier Beale
Brooks Hyers

Review by Wayne Malin

What’s the big deal?,
1976 documentary about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ aunt and first cousin living in a huge 28-room decaying, decrepit East Hampton mansion. The two women talk and talk and talk and TALK about their past lives–rambling on and on and often repeating themselves. The movie is hard to watch (the filth they’re living in is unbelievable) and, basically, boring. There’s absolutely nothing likable or interesting about these two women and their annoying rambling. It’s well done, but why is this considered a masterpiece? This is only for people who have a fascination with every aspect of Jackie Kennedy’s life. I give it a 5 only for the direction.