SYNOPSIS
Love, Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe invented her public persona at the expense of concealing a private side known only to her close confidants. Fifty years after her death, her creation still blazes brightly in our cultural imagination, while the creator continues to lurk in the shadows. Drawing on never-before-seen personal papers, diaries and letters, Academy-award nominated director Liz Garbus (Bobby Fischer Against The World, The Farm: Angola, USA) worked with acclaimed actresses to evoke the multiple aspects of the real Marilyn – passion, ambition, soul-searching, power and fear – in an absorbing and astonishing portrait. These documents, brought to life in this film by some of our contemporary icons and stars, give us a new and revelatory understanding of Monroe, revealing her carefully guarded inner life.
Marilyn Monroe was a woman who did not believe true love was possible and yet sought it all her life. This is an actress who at the height of her fame abandoned Hollywood to study acting with Lee Strasberg -in a room of resentful unknowns, because she wanted to be taken seriously. In Marilyn Monroe, the magic of a once-in-a-generation talent, and the reality of so many women caught between strength and insecurity, love and career, are amazingly united.
Love, Marilyn features Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Jennifer Ehle, Lindsay Lohan, Lili Taylor, Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood.
Rounding out this portrait, Adrien Brody, Hope Davis, Ben Foster, Paul Giamatti, Janet McTeer, Oliver Platt and David Strathairn bring to life the writings of Billy Wilder, Natasha Lytess, Truman Capote, Gloria Steinem and Norman Mailer, completing the image of this very flesh-and-blood young woman in thrall to ambition, imagination, demons, and fear who, over time, came to embrace life, friendship, and the possibility of her future.
TRAILER
RELEASE DATE
October 18, 2013DIRECTOR
Liz GarbusWRITER
Liz Garbus (written by), Marilyn Monroe (personal papers), Truman Capote, Elia Kazan (excerpts from memoirs), Arthur Miller (play), Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem (excerpts from book), Norman Rosten (excerpts from poem), Billy Wilder (excerpts from lettersCOMPANY
StudioCanalGENRE
Documentary, BiographyCERT
12ARUNTIME
107 minutesCAST
F. Murray AbrahamAdrien Brody
Elizabeth Banks
Ellen Burstyn
Glenn Close
Hope Davis
Viola Davis
Jennifer Ehle
Ben Foster
Paul Giamatti
Jack Huston
Stephen Lang
Jack Lemmon
Lindsay Lohan
Janet McTeer
Marilyn Monroe
Laurence Olivier
Jeremy Piven
Oliver Platt
David Strathairn
Lili Taylor
Uma Thurman
Marisa Tomei
Eli Wallach
Evan Rachel Wood