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Grey Gardens
- Director: Ellen Hovde; Albert Maysles
- Producer: Susan Froemke; Albert Maysles
CGiii Comment
Not much LGBT interest here [or, are we missing something?]....but, inexplicably, it featured in a top LGBT film list - so, we watched it, included it and have no idea why it should be here.
The daughter is as camp as tits and as annoying as persistent crabs...
The mother is a wretch of lost privilege...boo-bloody-hooo!
Both live in filth, decay and poverty - truthfully, both are rather repulsive, flea-infested stinkers.
And, the film goes on and on and on - just like the daughter.
Interesting nonetheless!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The Maysles brothers pay visits to Edith Bouvier Beale, nearing 80, and her daughter Edie. Reclusive, the pair live with cats and raccoons in Grey Gardens, a crumbling mansion in East Hampton. Edith is dry and quick-witted - a singer, married but later separated, a member of high society. Edie is voluble, dresses - as she puts it - for combat in tight ensembles that include scarves wrapped around her head. There are hints that Edie came home 24 years before to be cared for rather than to care for her mother. The women address the camera, talking over each other, moving from the present to events years before. They're odd, with flinty affection for each other.
Cast & Characters
Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale as Herself;
Edith Bouvier Beale as Herself;
Brooks Hyers as Himself - Gardener;
Norman Vincent Peale as Himself;
Jack Helmuth as Himself - Birthday Guest;
Albert Maysles as Himself;
David Maysles as Himself;
Jerry Torre as Himself - Handyman;
Lois Wright as Herself - Birthday Guest