Synopsis
This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.
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Cast
- Marilyn MonroeSelf (archive footage)
- Robert F. KennedySelf (archive footage)
- John F. KennedySelf (archive footage)
- Anthony SummersSelf
- Linzi HateleyJoan Greenson
- CJ JohnsonNatalie Jacobs
- Sorel JohnsonHildi Greenson
- Andre LillisSydney Guilaroff
- Sion LloydDanny Greenson
- Shelagh McLeodGloria Romanoff
Recommandations
- 80
Variety
This is dark, squalid, squinting-through-the-keyhole stuff, and it can make a film like The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe sound like a guilty-pleasure piece of true-crime trash, one of those glorified tabloid-TV exposés with a patina of investigative credibility. In fact, it’s a very good film. - 60
Slashfilm
"The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe" too often feels like it's merely scratching the surface and not trying to go much deeper. While I understand that the research of Anthony Summers is what helped shape this doc, Summers himself is far too present here, to the point where the documentary begins to feel more about him writing the book than it is about Monroe. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The film is affecting, because it outlines the saddening end of an adored American icon. But for all its promises of unheard insights, it seldom goes much deeper than an E! True Hollywood Story. - 42
IndieWire
Cooper’s film does no independent research of its own, and therefore can’t possibly offer any tidbits that weren’t first reported in the pages of “Goddess.” - 40
TheWrap
Given how much of the new material on Monroe is audio-based, one is left wondering why a project like this wouldn’t work better as a podcast. There is little that’s visually compelling about Cooper’s work, the type of investigation perhaps best listened to in the background of another activity. - 40
The New York Times
Mostly the film presents a banal rehash of established facts and well-circulated rumors about Monroe’s life. - 35
CNN
Watching The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe serves as a reminder, to paraphrase Elton John’s musical tribute, that her candle burned out long before the exploitation of her ever did. - 25
RogerEbert.com
It is too touch-and-go, too speculative about her life and mysterious death, to be of any genuine purpose.
