Grey Gardens ( HD documentary, 1975)

A 1975 documentary film in HD, directed by brothers Albert (November 26, 1926 March 5, 2015) and David Maysles (January 10, 1931 January 3, 1987). This documentary depicts an odd couple, mother and daughter Bouvier, in their everyday life in the dilapidated Gray Gardens villa in the upperclass area of East Hampton on Long Island. Mother Edith Big Edie Ewing Bouvier (October 5, 1895 February 5, 1977) was the aunt of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Daughter Edith Little Edie Bouvier Beale (November 7, 1917 January 14, 2002) was Jacqueline s cousin. In this documentary, the mother is almost eighty years old and the daughter is fiftysix. They have lived together in the old family villa since 1952 when Little Edie moved home after several hectic years in New York. Both are very eccentric and have a background as less successful semiprofessional singers. They seem to live in isolation in a romantic dream world where they leave the villa with its 28 rooms to d