Cinema Surreal
It is usually feature films that touch viewers' hearts – documentaries depict the reality we experience every day. But then suddenly there is a documentary that knows how to touch people in a very special way. Grey Gardens is one such film, and not just because of its awards: in 2010, it was added to the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for its cultural, historical and stylistic significance, and in 2012, audiences voted it the best documentary film of all time.
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Grey Gardens. David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer. USA 1975
Grey Gardens
- David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
- USA 1975, 85 min, colour, English OV, documentary
The protagonists are two eccentric elderly ladies – the mother ‘Big Edie’ and her daughter ‘Little Edie’. They come from a special family, the Bouviers. Their niece and cousin was the wife of American President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a super-rich style icon of the 20th century. The two women are different. As if fallen from a strange, surreal world, they have lived in the wealthy New York suburb of East Hampton for over 50 years in a dilapidated villa infested with dirty cats, raccoons and fleas. Big Edie and Little Edie are completely impoverished, but they have style. It is only when the community wants to tear down the villa in the early 1970s that Jacqueline Kennedy intervenes and finances a renovation.
In 1975, brothers David and Albert Maysles shot this unique documentary in the style of direct cinema.
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Dates
July 2025
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