Saisissements et dessaisissements de la vedette : M.M., à la traversée des images

Fascinated since childhood by pictures of movie stars, a young American from a popular background likes to serve as a model for photographic shots, whose promotional nature is similar to a game for her. Becoming a professional and accepting the physical transformations required by advertising, the beautiful appearance of “Marilyn Monroe” allows her to get first roles and to embrace the star system, which leads her to join each day more the fiction line of an image formed by others that the mirror reflects to her. But beyond this sparkling view, which the celebrity wears rhinestones and through which she dances, it seems that the role of star, because of public expectations, is very difficult to bear, while personal worries and so many dark reminiscences early begin to disturb her haloed dream. From the doubt, even despair, accompanying a young woman who, through the pictures, never ceases to ask for a lost reciprocity of love, then come times of divestment that suggest a singular personality and an ability to stand out from the powerful formatting required media exposure and its ever-changing extensions.