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 upper-class 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 fifty-six. 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 semi-professional singers. They seem to live in isolation in a romantic dream world where they leave the villa with its 28 rooms to d