
Of all the stars in Hollywood's history, no one had a more potent mix of glamor and tragedy than Marilyn Monroe. Through performed readings of her personal papers, this film explores the life and personal thoughts of this seminal movie star and how she achieved her dream with determination and audacity. Furthermore, through additional readings and interviews of her colleagues and acquaintances, we also follow her emotional self-destruction under the sexist pressures of Hollyw... (Full plot summary below)
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Of all the stars in Hollywood's history, no one had a more potent mix of glamor and tragedy than Marilyn Monroe. Through performed readings of her personal papers, this film explores the life and personal thoughts of this seminal movie star and how she achieved her dream with determination and audacity. Furthermore, through additional readings and interviews of her colleagues and acquaintances, we also follow her emotional self-destruction under the sexist pressures of Hollywood until her premature death in 1962.
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| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMost of us consider Marilyn Monroe a born star with modest acting skills, but Love, Marilyn deepens the argument that the ditzy, dim-bulb ''Marilyn'' was every inch a performance, and a brilliant one. |
| National PostNathalie AtkinsonThe monologues are like exercises from the star's beloved Actors Studio, performances of emotional facets. For the most part these are effectively stark, tender, childlike and raw. |
| Globe and MailRick GroenRemove the comma from the title and Love, Marilyn plays like the command it is. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis well-intentioned but clumsy attempt to get into the head of one of the 20th century's most famous women remains full of hot air. |
| Montreal GazetteBill BrownsteinGarbus is able to re-stitch Monroe's life in a most compelling and original manner. |
| Digital JournalSarah GopaulThis is a beautiful, creative and artful documentary that doubles as a tribute to one of cinema's everlasting bombshells and overcomes its narrative holes by being sincere and well made. |
| The ListAllan HunterIt doesn't provide blinding new insight into Monroe's life but it is filled with less familiar newsreel footage and decent movie clips and has some brief, invaluable glimpses of a troubled inner life. |
| Canada.comKatherine MonkBy the end of the film, we learn just about everything about Monroe was self-created, which somehow makes the eventual self-destruction a little more understandable, and her life story a cautionary meditation on the booby-traps of celebrity. |
| The GridJason AndersonGarbus' use of Monroe's own words are plenty wrenching at times but they don't add much to our collective understanding of either the enduring myth or the truth about the damaged woman who existed behind that sexpot façade. |
| Total FilmNeil SmithGiven the number of Marilyn memorials already out there, this is just another pleasant, un-revelatory way to say goodbye Norma Jean. |