Entertainment Weekly, 07/27/2002, p.52, "...These sad, bickering, mutually dependent women are like two Tennessee Williams heroines, acting out a real-life drama....It's almost impossible to look away..."
Sight and Sound, 07/01/2007, p.86, "[E]xtraordinary....[The Beales] turn out to be natural performers who are thrilled to have finally found an audience."
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Single Side - Dual Layer - RSDL Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - English Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer - Directors, Susan Froemke - Associate Producer Audio Interview - 1. Little Edie Beale - Featured Production Interview - 1. Todd Oldham, John Bartlett - Fashion Designers Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer Text/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos - 1. Behind the Scenes Photos Filmographies - 1. Cast & Crew
DVD Features:
Region 1 Keep Case Single Side - Dual Layer - RSDL Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - English Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary: Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer - Directors, Susan Froemke - Associate Producer Audio Interview: 1. Little Edie Beale - Featured Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer Production Interviews: Todd Oldham, John Bartlett - Fashion Designers Text/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos: Behind the Scenes Photos Filmographies: Cast & Crew
Product Notes
Out in East Hampton, behind a cloud of overgrown foliage and weeds, there is a large decaying mansion which is home to Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown-up daughter Little Edie. Big and Little Edie are the aunt and first cousin of Jacquelyn Kennedy Onassis, and this documentary is a portrait of their unusual life together. When Little Edie left New York, she left behind her dreams of stardom to take care of her aging mother, and together they developed a unique relationship, cloistered away in their fading glory. A stirring portrait by the pioneers of documentary filmmaking, the Maysles Brothers.
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