I never imagined I would make a film about Marilyn Monroe

But then maybe she’s always been there

I was three when she died and my Mother compulsively made drawings of her

CAPOTE’S APPLE 00.49 s DV 2023

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Acknowledgments

Truman Capote in Love with Truman The Maysell Brothers 1966

Somethings Got to Give George Cukor unfinished 1963

It Might Even Be a Kind of Relief to be Finished Marilyn Monroe Sarah Miles 2023

Marilyn five times Bruce Connor (a B&W clip of a young ingenue rescued from a movie lot bin)

The final Image 1948 young Marilyn at La Scala in Los Angeles

FROM 2001 A FAMILY ODYSSEY – OPHELIA’S VERSION TO
IT MIGHT EVEN BE KIND OF A RELIEF TO BE FINISHED MARILYN MONROE

Edna St Vincent Millay described Marilyn Monroe as a little spring ghost, an innocent fertility daemon, the vegetarian spirit that was Ophelia

Marilyn Monroe and Truman Capote were both runaways with a desire to be loved

vagabonds with absentee mothers he called her a beautiful child

Still kind of feral

Truman has been there since I read Breakfast at Tiffanys and then In Cold Blood.

Image credit 2001 A FAMILY ODYSSEY – OPHELIA’S VERSION 2002 SCREENGRABS

HAMLET Tony Richardson 1969
JFK BIRTHDAY MADISON GARDENS 1963

Marianne Faithfull rises up. In an interview Faithfull spoke of the power of playing the part and of her own use of heroin on stage and her own suicide attempt.

During the assembly a family member died from suicide someone else close to me died of suicide then another and then another from an accidental overdose

This led to an atmosphere of mourning and a correspondence with Korean Psychoanalyst

K E JUNG.

Turning 60 I found myself engaging more directly in subjects that have haunted my body of work by finding a form that embodies the fragmentary and fluid nature of memory and imagination.

After the final export sequence 5 butterflies I went for a walk and found myself in a housing estate, with my camera life presents itself aligning with the serendipitous.