The Quogue Library will host an off-site screening of the HBO film “Grey Gardens” on Saturday, August 22, at 8 p.m. at the Quogue Community Hall on Jessup Avenue in Quogue. Starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, the film was adapted by writer/director Michael Sucsy from the 1970s documentary of the same name.
In 1973, filmmakers Albert and David Maysles entered the strange world of “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale, two charming, eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Spending six weeks with the reclusive mother and daughter—who chose to live in squalor and near total isolation in a decaying, 28-room mansion in East Hampton—the Maysles captured their day-to-day life in its raw, uncensored and captivatingly honest moments for a documentary called “Grey Gardens.”
More than three decades years later, using the documentary as his framework, Mr. Sucsy crafted his own version of “Grey Gardens.” Mr. Sucsy’s original story offers a wry, behind-the-scenes look at the Beales and their unique mother-daughter bond.
Saturday’s screening will be introduced by Mr. Sucsy, and registration is required. For more information or to register, call the library at (631) 653-4224, ext. 4.
on Aug 18, 2009