Plot Summary - More footage from the original "Grey Gardens" documentary from 1975 was used to create this new film. Lots more glimpses of eccentric but lovable mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beales, and their semi-isolated life in their East Hampton beachside mansion, Grey Gardens. This film features lots more of Little Edie singing, dancing, posing, and making love to the camera with her eyes basically; Big Edie recites a couple of poems. The house has a small fire, a small batch of cute kittens is born, and there is more footage featured of the "Marble Faun", an Italian-American neighbor youth named Jerry who likes to hang about with the two women. They also receive a visit from a friend/palm reader who paints some rather unusual, kind of dark paintings!
Review - Okay, this documentary wasn't quite as good as the original, which obviously featured most of the best footage, but it was still very interesting and great to spend some more time with these two women - I really like them a whole lot, as obviously the two filmmakers, the Maysles brothers did. Little Edie flirts with them from her side of the camera quite often in the footage shown in this. We also get to see a whole lot more of Little Edie's wild costumes and headdresses (love it!) - amazing the combinations and ideas she comes up with! More skirts and scarves created out of shirts, more weird color combinations, more running about in that same 40s/50s looking bathing suit - - we even see Edie take the two filmmakers down to the beach, where she sunbathes and goes for a swim - lots of fun stuff. Very cool. Rating - 9/10 stars
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