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"Blonde": Marilyn Monroe deserves better

Netflix's insufferable fictionalized chronicle of the starlet's life is one of the worst tragic icon movies ever

Salon

Blonde: Ana de Armas plays victimised Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s long-awaited, Netflix-backed take on the Hollywood starlet

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.

ABC News

Kitten died after swallowing string that came off new piece of furniture

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

Wales Online

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All Marilyn Monroe movies are exploitative. But the nightmarish Blonde actually shows you inside her vagina

Andrew Dominik’s fictionalised biopic of the tragic movie star doesn’t just fail Marilyn Monroe herself, writes Amanda Whiting, but its use of a talking foetus begging not to be aborted – yes, really – sinks the film into new depths of invasiveness

The Independent UK

Marilyn Monroe fascination comes to Netflix with 'Blonde'

Marilyn Monroe has been dead for almost 60 years, but there is still a kind of madness around her that remains

The Independent UK

All Marilyn Monroe movies are exploitative. But the nightmarish Blonde actually shows you inside her vagina

The Independent UK

All Marilyn Monroe movies are exploitative. But the nightmarish Blonde actually shows you inside her vagina

The Independent UK

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Blonde: Epic Marilyn Monroe novel captures the violence of celebrity myth-making

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

The New Daily

Blonde: Joyce Carol Oates' epic Marilyn Monroe novel captures the violence of celebrity myth-making

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.

The Conversation

Review: Ana de Armas Digs Deep as Marilyn in Brutal ‘Blonde’

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy

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

The Guardian - UK

Blonde movie review: Ana de Armas’s Marilyn Monroe drama does nothing to help reclaim its subject’s power

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

Evening Standard

‘Oscar-bait role’: Why the latest Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde is dividing Hollywood

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

The New Daily

Marilyn Monroe: why are we still obsessed 60 years after her death?

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…

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The Guardian - UK

The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth

Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction

The Independent UK

Ana de Armas seen with Marilyn Monroe’s platinum curls in trailer for Blonde

Actor also recreates the famous movie still in which Monroe’s white dress blew up above her knees.

Evening Standard

Blonde: First trailer released as Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe in disturbing Netflix biopic

The new trailer for the movie Blonde has been released

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