Grey Gardens
United States • 1975
Directors
#123Criterion Collection →David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorDavid Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer
CinematographerAlbert Maysles, David Maysles
EditorEllen Giffard, Susan Froemke, Muffie Meyer
ProducerDavid Maysles, Albert Maysles
