MFAH Film Restorations & Revivals: Grey Gardens
- When
- July 26, 2015
- Where
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston – Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston,TX 77006 - Cost
- $2 - $1001
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the Restorations & Revivals film series. Enjoy these classics from world cinema on the big screen in Brown Auditorium Theater!
Grey Gardens
Directed by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer
1976, USA, 94 minutes, DCP
Immediately after a 1971 National Enquirer article revealed that a cousin and an aunt of Jackie Kennedy’s were living in near-poverty in a dilapidated Hamptons mansion, the American public became curious about the two reclusive socialites named “Big” and “Little” Edie Beale.
This documentary by Albert and David Maysles indeed captures an estate—Grey Gardens—that’s just as messy as reported. But more important, the film shows a mother-daughter relationship so intimate that the surroundings hardly matter.
Both Edies are quirky and outspoken—nostalgic for the past, yet optimistic about their future together.
