Overview

This film explores the daily lives of two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, are the sole inhabitants (if you don’t count raccoons) of a dilapidated Long Island estate. During the course of the documentary, they discuss their habits, desires, and former loves with filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, making it a good example of a Participatory Documentary, which is where filmmakers interact with subjects rather than unobtrusively observing them.