This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography

1999 · 35 min

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
Writer: Jonas Mekas
Released: October 12, 1999
Language: English