Albert and David Maysles' traditional GREY GARDENS immortalized the property of Edith and Little Edie Beale, kin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, who lived in alarmingly poor situations. However there's extra to the story: it was Lee Radziwill and Peter Beard who first introduced the Maysles to the Beales, when the 2 got down to make a movie about Radziwill's childhood. The reels of that first contact had been shelved for 45 years. This documentary recovers the misplaced footage. Anchored in Beard's recollections and creative imaginative and prescient, we're returned to "that summer time" in 1972, a seductive dream world and collage of radically unconventional artistic personalities—Warhol, Bacon, Jagger, Capote—training the artwork of residing amidst oppressive forces of sophistication expectation and prejudice.
