Grey+Gardens

Given our recent discussions of "making meaning," I wonder how we approach a film that doesn't forward any overt meaning?

Here's an attempt at a claim: The film's form echoes the complex interweaving of memory and imagination that the Beales perform. For them, the past and present are so fully intertwined that their 'story' resists the imposition of linearity, cause-effect, and crisis-resolution that are standards of (fiction and non-fiction) film form.