This recently re-released vérité classic has lost none of its power to engross and infuriate. Shot over five weeks in a decaying mansion called Grey Gardens, it catalogues in excruciating detail the world – both inner and outer – inhabited by Edie and her mother, Jacqueline Onassis’ aunt Edith Bouvier Beale. Edie gave up the life of a New York socialite to look after her ageing mother, herself a stunning beauty in her youth and a first-rate soprano. Resembling a Tennessee Williams play, the film is a painfully naked, often outrageously funny account of the stormy relationship between two eccentrics trapped in a web of co-dependence – and a moving evocation of lives once rich in music, laughter and love.