This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

Overview

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.

Director: Jonas Mekas

Cast

Jacqueline Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy, Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Caroline Kennedy

Self

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Lee Radziwill

Self

Andy Warhol

Self (archive footage)