One of the most controversial films of the year, Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” stars Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Nathan Weinbender says the film, now streaming on Netflix, is beautiful to look at, but it never finds a point beyond sheer cruelty.
Lindsey Bahr AP – Marilyn Monroe has been dead for 60 years, but there is still a kind of madness around her that remains. Just look at the frenzied discourse around Blonde, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ fictional portrait of the Hollywood star that has yet to be seen by the general public. There […]
Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, Andrew Dominik’s film ignores the assertive and hardworking real-life Marilyn Monroe and instead gives us a lurid tale of perpetual victimisation.
For a movie that spends nearly three hours plumbing the depths of its main character's psyche, Andrew Dominik's Blonde offers a remarkably superficial take on.