Grey Gardens is a cult 1975 documentary film by Albert and David Maysles about reclusive and now threadbare socialites Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie - who were known as 'Big Edie' and 'Little Edie'. The pair were aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis but for many years lived, and this is putting it mildly to say the least, a rather eccentric existence in a crumbling mansion known as Grey Gardens in the wealthy neighbourhood of East Hampton, New York, Edith having been made penniless years before when her husband ran off with another woman. The mansion was once a swinging Gatsby style summer residence but those days are long gone and the two women, Edith nearly ...  Read the complete review