why should you watch this . there be certainly no reason why you shouldn not watch it . superbly and amusingly direct by albert and david maysles and grey garden be originally intend to be a film on the gentrification of east hampton and but it turn out to the brother that it would be more interesting to produce a study on the eccentric life of the two edith bouvier beales and the aunt and cousin of jacqueline kennedy onassis . their life be certainly an amuse one ( edith spend most of her day in bed singing opera and edie perform pirouette and majorette dance with their many cat and one be name ted z. kennedy ) the film be interest because it be both funny and sad edith die shortly after the film be release ( in february 1977 ) age 82 after experience some of the fame that she and edie receive after the film ( she dance and sing in a nightclub edie beale jr be bear in 1925 and be still live in miami beach . this film be both engage and spellbounding .