Search

Search only in certain items:

    Lovecats

    Lovecats

    Hugo Ross

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    Book

    We all know that cats can be temperamental, aloof, reserved. But whilst us humans often get given...

    Arcadia

    Arcadia

    Iain Pears

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    Book

    Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. April, 1960: In the cellar of a...

40x40

Guy Maddin recommended Grey Gardens (1975) in Movies (curated)

 
Grey Gardens (1975)
Grey Gardens (1975)
1975 | Biography, Comedy, Drama

"The documentarians David and Albert Maysles found some real-life Tennessee Williams characters in Edith and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, mother and daughter eccentrics holed up for years in a sagging, cat-and-raccoon-infested mansion in otherwise grand East Hampton. The ladies’ kinship with cousin Jackie Bouvier Kennedy explains their old-money sense of entitlement, but nothing can explain why two people would want to hammer away at each other for decades on end the way these two trapped souls do. Except that maybe you’d do the same thing under the same circumstances. I’d like to think I would, anyway."

Source
  
(Forgive typos I'm reviewing on my tablet)

I was ecstatic when this was first announced. Honestly it's been on my to buy list for months. Thanks to the pandemic, however, I never got the chance.

So when I found this while browsing Libby for a quick read I grinned like the Cheshire cat and checked it out pronto.

I wasn't disappointed. The art makes it seem like the characters jumped out of an episode.

The story is solid it just...

Ended too quickly I guess?

I mean the ending was good but too fast for me.