Documentary · United States of America · 1999 · 35m

This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

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Director
Jonas Mekas
Cast
Jacqueline Kennedy as Self (archive footage) John F. Kennedy, Jr. as Self (archive footage) Caroline Kennedy as Self Lee Radziwill as Self Andy Warhol as Self (archive footage)
Crew
Jonas Mekas — Editor Jonas Mekas — Writer Jonas Mekas — Producer
Synopsis

Jonas Mekas reflects on summers spent in the late 1960s and early 1970s with Jackie Kennedy, her sister Lee Radziwill, and their families. Blending personal footage with diary narration, the film captures intimate moments of friendship, cinema, and healing in the years following John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

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