A gateway to the world of Marilyn Monroe, the installation features photographs, exclusive interviews, interactive digital devices and excerpts from the novel, all of which can be interacted with to immerse oneself in the actress's intimate writings and persona. A work of virtual reality invites visitors to enter the actress's memories, cross her thoughts and discover her secrets.
The play
This journey culminates in a play based on the icon's only autobiographical text, Marilyn Monroe Confession inachevée, revealing a nuanced portrait of an artist torn between her intellectual curiosity and the image producers wanted her to have. A troublingly modern play that is both moving and enlightening, intimate and feminist.
1954, Beverly Hills Hotel. Marilyn Monroe is 28 years old and embarking on writing her memoirs. She delves into her childhood and teenage memories, sharing her thoughts on cinema, love, sexuality and acting with co-author Ben Hecht.
This unique confession, intimate, feminist and political, reveals a double Marilyn, torn between melancholy and glitter, her anxieties and her sex-symbol image, her intellectual curiosity and the producers' desire to turn her into a mere blonde damsel.
All Marilyn's emotion and fragility, her rebellion dressed in humor and lightness, are here masterfully brought to life in images by Sandrine Revel, and in words by Stéphanie Sphyras.
Production Principe Actif | Swing Digital – Coproduction : La métonymie | Le sas
In collaboration with Cervval and in partnership with ABG and Joshua Greene, The Archives, Robert Laffont, Espace Jean Legendre à Compiègne, Galerie Joseph, Université Paris-Saclay, Atelier des Capucins, Pierre Marcel Blanchot - Agents et Artistes Management and la Centrale.
With the support of DRAC Île-de-France, CNC, Ville de Paris and ONDA.
From May 27th to Juin 25th at the Forum des Images, Paris
