That Summer
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 Radziwill's childhood. The reels of that first contact were shelved for 45 years. This documentary recovers the lost footage. Anchored in Beard's recollections and artistic vision, we are returned 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.
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Edith Bouvier Beale
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Storyville
Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage)
Also in
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Andy Warhol's America
Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
Self (archive footage)
Peter Beard
Self
Also in
Hallelujah the Hills
Jacqueline Kennedy
Also in
Assassinations That Changed the World
Andy Warhol's America
Lee Radziwill
Self
Also in
Laura
Le Business et la Mode
Göran Olsson Director · Per K. Kirkegaard Editor
United States release September 1, 2017 · Produced in Denmark, Sweden, United States · Production Louverture Films, Final Cut for Real
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Story AB
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Louverture Films
Production
Final Cut for Real
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Denmark · Sweden · United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 1, 2017
Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
France
August 17, 2021 · TV · ARTE
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