It took audacity to tackle the Monroe myth.
Tatiana de Rosnay has no shortage of them, but it's not the paper legend, with its rhinestones and sequins, that interested her.
It's even quite the opposite.
In
Poussière blonde
, Marilyn is a woman with milky skin and bloody eyes.
The unhappy wife of Arthur Miller.
The grieving lover of Yves Montand.
The eternal latecomer on the set of
Désaxés
.
She is fragile and tired.
The heroine here is not the actress, but Pauline, her cleaning lady.
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1960. Reno, Nevada.
Sand dust.
Blazing sun.
In the heart of the little yellow town, the Mapes Hotel dominates, the first skyscraper in the post-war American West.
Art Deco storefront, 12 floors, 300 rooms and as many staff… including Pauline.
One morning, the young twenty-year-old is asked to clean suite 614. Empty bottles, ashtrays to the brim, cemetery of barbiturates and amphetamines... Pauline sighs, plugs in the vacuum cleaner when a naked woman...
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