Grey Gardens. Directed by The Mayles Brothers
The Beales of Grey Gardens. Directed by the Mayles Brothers
Somewhere between the disciplined, fly-on-the-wall genre of cinéma vérité and the current assembly-line style of verisimilitude, reality TV, falls Grey Gardens. Like the latter approach, a brand of poking our nose into people’s misfortune and, to varying degrees, affecting the scenario, this production relies on minor celebrity and extravagant behavior to create its theater. ...