That Summer (2017)

Albert and David Maysles classic GREY GARDENS immortalized the estate of Edith and Little Edie Beale relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy who lived in alarmingly poor conditions But there is more to the story it was Lee Radziwill and Peter Beard who first brought the Maysles to the Beales when the two set out to make a film about Radziwills childhood The reels of that first contact were shelved for 45 years This documentary recovers the lost footage Anchored in Beards recollections and artistic vision we are returned to that summer in 1972 a seductive dream world and collage of radically unconventional creative personalitiesWarhol Bacon Jagger Capotepracticing the art of living amidst oppressive forces of class expectation and prejudice