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Recreating Marilyn Monroe’s Iconic Outfits in ‘Blonde’

Marilyn Monroe’s on-screen costumes are almost as iconic as her. Think of the hot pink strapless gown she wore to sing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Or the white halter cocktail dress that billowed up over a subway grate in “The Seven Year Itch.” They have been recreated, reimagined…

Asharq Al-Awsat

It’s best that Marilyn Monroe doesn’t know what Andrew Dominik really thinks of her

Andrew Dominik spent more than a decade making a movie about Marilyn Monroe. So you’d think he would hold her in higher esteem. Apparently not.

Los Angeles Times

The blonde bombshell returns: Andrew Dominik's take on Marilyn Monroe

Director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik's image-fuelled adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's novel "Blonde" is now available on Netflix. Film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why what the director has called "an emotional nightmare fairy tale" is a powerful immersion into the circumstances of Marilyn Monroe, a performer who was anything…

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Is the Marilyn Monroe Netflix epic Blonde based on true events?

Netflix film Blonde sees Ana de Armas become the latest actor to play the original Hollywood bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, in an epic that nearly hits the three-hour mark

Daily Mirror

Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde

Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth

The Guardian - US

TV tonight: Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson is television at its most triggering

Michael Winterbottom’s pandemic drama is sickeningly accurate. Plus: risky business for Catherine in the season finale of The Great. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Blonde director says he wasn’t ‘concerned with being tasteful’ in his depiction of Marilyn Monroe’s abortion

New psychological drama ‘is supposed to leave you shaking,’ Andrew Dominik said

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Joyce Carol Oates says Marilyn Monroe went through ‘much worse’ than anything in Blonde

New Netflix psychological drama biopic is based on Oates’ novel of the same name

The Independent UK

Recreating Marilyn Monroe’s iconic outfits in ‘Blonde’

Marilyn Monroe’s on-screen costumes are almost as iconic as her

The Independent UK

Joyce Carol Oates says Marilyn Monroe went through ‘much worse’ than anything in Blonde

New Netflix psychological drama biopic is based on Oates’ novel of the same name

The Independent UK

Kim Kardashian puts on striking show in leopard print ensemble for dinner with North in Milan

Keeping Up With The Kardashians alumni Kim Kardashian is the face of a new Dolce & Gabbana fashion campaign in Italy and had her own show called Ciao Kim during Milan Fashion Week

Daily Mirror

Blonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters

Andrew Dominik’s gothic portrait of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe – an extraordinary Ana de Armas – is a fever dream of childhood trauma haunting adult life

The Guardian - UK

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

Kim Kardashian continues to channel idol Marilyn Monroe with blonde hair transformation

Kim Kardashian has been working on a campaign with Dolce & Gabbana which has been inspired by Marilyn Monroe

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From Don’t Worry Darling to Peaky Blinders: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Enthralled by Harry Styles? Thrilled by dancing flat-capped gangsters? Our critics have you covered for the next seven days

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 Guardian - UK

The Guide #53: Why are Industry and The Bear TV’s most tense dramas?

Most of us don’t run high-stress kitchens or negotiate million dollar deals every day – but we can all relate to tales of toxic workplaces and money troubles

The Guardian - UK

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates audiobook review – an imagined life of Marilyn Monroe

Jayne Atkinson resists the cliches of the film star’s breathy voice in a tough, fictionalised tale of abuse and fame

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The Guardian - UK

Blonde to Harriet: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Ana de Armas is uncanny as the Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, and Cynthia Erivo is remarkable as the American abolitionist. Plus: Beverly Hills Cop

The Independent UK

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

Boston Herald

Movie review: ‘Blonde’ a tour de force take on Marilyn Monroe’s fabulous, tragic life

Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” is a “Phantom of the Opera” whose phantom hides her psychological scars behind the mask of a Hollywood screen goddess. Based on the 2000 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the beautifully shot, almost three-hour film, which switches back and forth from color to black and white, presents…

Chicago Sun-Times

Overwrought, overlong ‘Blonde’ depicts Marilyn Monroe’s life as a joyless nightmare

Netflix film has an arresting look, but too many visual and aural tricks fight for our attention.

The Independent UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to the First Blokes club! What can Hugh O’Leary expect as the prime minister’s husband?

Denis Thatcher seemed happy to do nothing but booze and play golf. Jacinda Ardern’s fiance throws himself into fishing. How will Liz Truss’s spouse cope with being in the spotlight?

The Independent UK

Ana de Armas finds it ‘disgusting’ and ‘upsetting’ that her Marilyn Monroe nude scenes will ‘go viral’

Film makes history as Netflix’s first produced NC-17 rated movie

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