Review of Grey Gardens (1976) by Adrian B — 12 Nov 2013

Questionably odd documentary on the isolated cousins of late president John F. Kennedy. These ladies, mother Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and daughter Edith Ewing Beale, lived in an isolated home along the East Hampton, New York coastline (I actually thought it was along the coast in either North or South Caroline for some reason).

There is infested with bugs, rodents, and cats, and do they care? No! Essentially, their nuts! There is no other way to describe these ladies, who seem to be engaged in a real love/hate relationship and treat everyone around very peculiarly.

Disturbingly, it's like the relationship between my mother and my grandmother, although they are not that isolated or psychotic. I can sadly relate in a way. Brrrrrr...Mother Ewing died two years after the documentary was released, while daughter Ewing passed away in 2002.

Both lived into their eighties despite this less than appealing life style.