Great documentary and the two most annoying people on the planet
*** SPOILERS*** A 28 room house yet the fridge is in the bedroom, and the phone is on the kitchen floor. Raccoons entering through a hole in the plaster wall that a person could walk through. And, the daughter feeds them.
The mother and daughter talk in non-sequiturs, non-stop and over each other, addressing the film makers and each other. Even when they're in separate rooms or separate floors, and since the house is devoid of carpeting all conversations echo. Every square inch inside and out needs painted and the daughter's talent for decorating the walls consists primarily of newspaper clippings, hand drawn signs and magazine covers. And a bird cage. And a single curtain takes the place of a door in some rooms. The old woman points out that one of the eight flea-bitten cats is going to the bathroom, behind a painting which is leaning against the wall on the floor. Some of the cats sleep on the bed with her where she also cooks and listens to the radio, and carries on disjointed conversations with her daughter who flits from room as she talks over her mother. She also cooks corn on the cob on a pot next to her bed, offers a gardener a cob, and later uses the fork she cooked the cobs with to stir a drink.
The daughter believes in the Zodiac and reads from an astrological book. Non-linear dialogue punctuates the entire film, this is the most disjointed and irrational display of thinking that I have ever seen, and I tried to turn it off several times but after a breather I'd go back to it. The gardening consists of 20 to 30 foot-high hedges that would have rivaled the impenetrable hedgerows that the Allies faced in northern France. The daughter lost her favorite blue scarf one day as the wind blew it off the balcony and the hedges consumed it, never to be seen again. She also covers her head in a different-colored scarf all the time.
If you have an ounce of sanity in your head this documentary will torture you.