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That Summer

The classic GREY GARDENS by Albert and David Maysles memorialized the home of Edith and Little Edie Beale, Kennedy family relations who lived in appalling conditions. In fact, Lee Radziwill and Peter Beard were the first to introduce the Maysles to the Beales when they set out to make a film on Radziwill's youth. For the next 45 years, the reels of that initial encounter were put away. The missing footage is found in this film. We are transported back to "that summer" in 1972, a seductive dream world and collage of radically unconventional creative personalities—Warhol, Bacon, Jagger, Capote—practicing the art of living amidst oppressive forces of class expectation and prejudice, anchored in Beard's recollections and artistic vision.

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