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Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates's fictionalised interpretation of the star’s tragic life, is the first movie due for release on a streaming service slapped with the NC-17 rating.

"The vet said it was like a cheese wire, it just went through her guts. There was nothing he could do."

Blonde, now a film, is a towering literary achievement that summons, as only fiction can, the violence of being mythologised.

Marilyn Monroe died 60 years ago, on August 4 1962. And on September 28, Netflix will release Blonde, a film by Australian director Andrew Dominik, starring Cuban actress Ana de Armas as Monroe.

What a dream it must be to be Marilyn Monroe, a starstruck assistant tells her. “Everyone would give their right arm to be you!” And we cringe, as we’ll do many times during Andrew Dominik’s brutal, bruising and often beautiful “Blonde,” starring a heartbreaking Ana de Armas. This time, it’s…

A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings

Ana de Armas embodies Monroe’s sexiness and vulnerability but is given frustratingly little chance to express her wit and intelligence

Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe, Netflix releases the trailer for biopic Blonde, starring Cuban actress Ana de Armas.

For some, death can be a smart career move. Quite how smart a move depends a lot on who you are and how you die. As we approach the 60th anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe, we can learn a few lessons about the art and implications of dying…