Watching Grey Gardens, a cinema verite film about Jackie Onassis's eccentric aunt, Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale, and cousin, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, living together in their run down Long Island mansion.
Little Edie is fifty-six in the movie. My age. And I'm watching this thing with my elderly mother. I hope it doesn't hit too close to home.
I was a little worried when Big Edie is sitting out in the sun and threatens to "get naked."
Made by Albert and David Maysles.
Weirdly, there was a 2009 made-for-TV movie with the same title starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as Big and Little Edie.
Available on The Criterion Channel.
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