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Title: A Grey Area
Review: In this amazing documentary, the Maysles take on the take on the story of Big and Little Edie Bouvier, living in recently-cleaned filth in their ancestral house in the Hamptons. The Edies bare all about what's left of thier lives, seemingly taking pleasure in defacing their "legacy" (at one point, big Edie looks approvingly as a cat pees on her portrait). Strangely, this is not played for "Baby Jane" value- despite the fact that the filmakers reportedly had to wear flea collars on their ankles to complete their epic, you get the distinct impression that they liked both Edies- certainly I did by the end of the film- which ends in little Edie giving a chilling revival of her dancing abiities: chilling because you can see how very close this strange, damaged woman could have been to being the person she was in her head.I can only imagine how much big Edie was thwarted as well.
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