2018
Unrated
Sundance Selects
1 h 20 m

2018
Unrated
Sundance Selects
1 h 20 m

Summary Welcome to Grey Gardens…as you’ve never seen it before. Three years before the Maysles’ landmark documentary introduced the world to Edith and Edie Beale—the unforgettable mother-daughter (and Jackie O. relatives) living in a decaying dream world on Long Island—renowned photographer Peter Beard chronicled life at their crumbling estate d...

Documentary

Directed By: Göran Olsson

2018
Unrated
Sundance Selects
1 h 20 m

2018
Unrated
Sundance Selects
1 h 20 m

That Summer

Name: That Summer
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-05-18
Duration: 1 min 20 s
Rating: 62
Cast: Peter Beard, Lee Radziwill, Jacqueline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, John Kennedy Jr.

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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IndieWire

May 18, 2018

If the deliciously grainy archival footage were the only thing That Summer had to offer, it would be enough. But by including Beard and Radziwill’s introspective voiceovers, Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson (“The Black Power Mixtape”) creates a nostalgic meditation that touches on both cultural and historical memory.

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Variety

Apr 5, 2018

Almost exclusively composed of 16mm footage shot in 1972 and lost until now, Göran Hugo Olsson’s fascinating documentary recounts the summer when Lee Radziwill and photographer Peter Beard decided to record Radziwill’s reclusive aunt and first cousin, hiring the Maysles and shooting in and around Grey Gardens while workers fixed the place up.

By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW

Movie Nation

May 21, 2018

The lack of organization keeps this from being a complete film, or a great one. That Summer is a footnote to “Grey Gardens.” But for those wholly engrossed in the history, the tragedy and the “real Beales,” before “Grey Gardens” set their personas in stone and made them immortal, it’s a fascinating artifact and another piece of the puzzle of who they were before the caricatures took over.

By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

RogerEbert.com

May 18, 2018

The major problem with That Summer is the inescapable fact that it only barely qualifies as a movie.

By Peter Sobczynski FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

May 17, 2018

That Summer, a new documentary directed by Goran Hugo Olsson, sheds further light on the Beales with footage shot before the making of “Grey Gardens.”

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

May 16, 2018

Offhandedly, in a movie that itself is offhanded to a fault, Little Edie cuts to the core of the whole Grey Gardens phenomenon during one of her moments alone with the camera. “[To] dig up the past, I think, is about the most cruel thing anybody can do.”

By Tatiana Craine FULL REVIEW

San Francisco Chronicle

Jul 6, 2018

That Summer leaves me with Beale fatigue. It would seem to appeal to “Grey Gardens” completists only.

By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Story, Louverture Films, Final Cut for Real

Release Date May 18, 2018

Duration 1 h 20 m

Rating Unrated

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