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06/24/06
Grey Gardens (1976)
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Reviews Counted: 14 Fresh: 14 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis: Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter Little Edie. Big and Little Edie are the aunt and first cousin of Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, and this documentary is a portrait of... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
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Just as people like the wrong movies for the wrong reasons, people can like the right movies with similar faulty logic.
06/26/07
Borderline exploitative. But the stark power of the dual portrait can't be denied.
02/10/07
An editor's exercise: take footage shot 30 years ago for another film, and edit it into a new movie
01/25/07
Grey Gardens became a cult film in the '70s, when mavericks and outsiders were the heroes and heroines and the Beales were valued for their alternative world and their priceless eccentricity.
01/04/07
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No film – no Tennessee Williams adaptation, nothing by Guy Maddin or Lynch, no genre-exploding Japanese horror flick – has ever had a stranger pair of characters at its core.
07/28/04
The film's real fascination, however, does not come through some morbid freak show angle but in its study of this strangely symbiotic relationship.
01/02/04
At first blush, the film may seem like an invitation to mockery, but the more one uncovers of the vast history of the Beales at Grey Gardens, the more the film becomes a monument to the fiercely independent nature of these two staunch characters.
07/18/03
There's an undeniable skill on The film feels pretty exploitative, even as the Beales insist that it's not exploiting them at all.
03/05/02
Indeed, Little Edie is always performing for the camera. This is why the presence of the Maysles is necessary in the film.
01/11/02
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