That Summer

6.0
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 80 min
  • Premiere: 2017. September 1.

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.

Discover

Edith Bouvier Beale

Self (archive footage)

Andy Warhol

Self (archive footage)

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale

Self (archive footage)

Directing

Göran Olsson

Director

Editing

Production

Danny Glover

Executive Producer

Peter Beard

Executive Producer

Joslyn Barnes

Producer

Tobias Janson

Producer

Susan Rockefeller

Executive Producer

Andrea Barron

Executive Producer

Tony Tabatznik

Executive Producer

Nejma Beard

Producer