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Movie Info

Letters, diaries and rare footage reveal the personal side of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Glenn Close, Uma Thurman, Hope Davis and others read selections from Monroe's writings.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Liz Garbus
Writer:

Truman Capote
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 17, 2016
Runtime:

1h 45m
Production Co:

StudioCanal

Cast & Crew

F. Murray Abraham

Elizabeth Banks

Adrien Brody

Lindsay Lohan

Oliver Platt

Uma Thurman

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Critic Reviews for Love, Marilyn

All Critics (23) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (8)

Monroe's writing is beautifully succinct, but the cast deliver it with such mannered intensity that it comes across like the worst of Monroe's performances ...

October 17, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Henry Barnes
Guardian
This intelligent, sensitive doc gets a bit pretentious as today's stars read Monroe's words.

October 15, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Time Out
If not quite on the level of Garbus's terrific Bobby Fischer documentary, this is still filled with fond recollections of Mazza's life and career. Fans will relish it.

October 14, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

David Parkinson
Empire Magazine
Remove the comma from the title and Love, Marilyn plays like the command it is.

April 5, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
Do any fresh revelations or insights remain, a half century past Monroe's overdose death at age 36?

April 4, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Peter Howell
Toronto Star
A heartfelt and well-intentioned love letter to an already deeply beloved star, and for anyone who's still not convinced, the picture works hard to make the case for Monroe's gifts as an actress.

December 13, 2012 | Full Review…

Stephanie Zacharek
NPR
Whilst it proves stylistically innovative and emotionally thoughtful, Love, Marilyn rarely offers a deeper insight into the Hollywood icon.

March 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Ben Nicholson
CineVue
This 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.

March 1, 2019 | Full Review…

Sarah Gopaul
Digital Journal
Given the number of Marilyn memorials already out there, this is just another pleasant, un-revelatory way to say goodbye Norma Jean.

October 28, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Neil Smith
Total Film
It 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.

October 8, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Allan Hunter
The List
Garbus is able to re-stitch Monroe's life in a most compelling and original manner.

May 15, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Bill Brownstein
Montreal Gazette
By 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.

April 5, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Katherine Monk
Canada.com

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Audience Reviews for Love, Marilyn

Jan 05, 2014

While it's interesting after a fashion to hear these actors read her journals and try to make them come alive, sometimes too empathetically, it becomes repetitive after a while. What could have added an extra needed dimension to this since they gathered such an amazing array of talent is to have these respected thespians, well except for Lohan, tell what value they found in Marilyn's work and what she meant to them.

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