Grey Gardens

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale – high society dropouts, mother and daughter, reclusive cousins of Jackie O. – thriving together amid the decay and disorder of their ramshackle East Hampton mansion. Five years after “Gimme Shelter,” the Maysles unveiled this impossibly intimate portrait of the unexpected, an eerie echo of the Kennedy Camelot, which has since become a cult classic and established Little Edie as fashion icon and philosopher queen.