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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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

‘Blonde’ review: Showbiz is a girl’s worst friend in Netflix’s oppressive Marilyn Monroe nightmare

Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” streaming on Netflix Sept. 28, is meant to be a tough sit, endured, more than a harsh, often miserable life, examined. Wrong mission. But mission accomplished.

Chicago Tribune

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Ana de Armas: Filming Marilyn biopic Blonde gave me goosebumps

Ana De Armas has revealed the extent to which the cast and crew of the Marilyn Monroe biopic went to in order to recreate the life and times of the Hollywood legend.

Evening Standard

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…

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Why this Marilyn Monroe biopic is NC-17

The NC-17 rating has historically been bad for business due to its adults-only label and pornographic stigma

Salon

Blonde review – Some like it rotten: Monroe biopic is moving, explicit and intensely irritating

Venice film festival: Andrew Dominik’s controversial drama finds space for talking foetuses, presidential sex and a starry throuple – but denies its subject sufficient agency

The Guardian - UK

‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set

Director Andrew Dominik also says that scenes for the controversial Netflix release, filmed in the room where the iconic actor died were ‘like a seance’

The Guardian - UK

Ana de Armas: The Cuban Taking on Marilyn Monroe

Ana de Armas's journey from Cuban migrant to starring as Marilyn Monroe in "Blonde", which gets its world premiere in Venice on Thursday, is the stuff of American Dream cliches. Born in Cuba in 1988, Armas came to the United States in her twenties with barely a word of English,…

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Heartbreak High, Rings of Power, Blonde: what’s new to streaming in Australia this September

Plus a starry drama about the Bali bombings, new Rick and Morty and Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson

The Guardian - AU

Ana de Armas slams NC-17 rating of Marilyn Monroe flick ‘Blonde’

Ana de Armas is baffled that her hotly anticipated film “Blonde” has a rare NC-17 rating, even though other films “are way more explicit” than Netflix’s forthcoming movie about Marilyn Monroe and her legacy.

Tribune News Service

Why is 'Blonde' – Netflix's Marilyn Monroe biopic – rated NC-17 instead of TV-MA?

The NC-17 rating has historically been a film certification that’s bad for business due to its adults-only label and pornographic stigma.

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The Independent UK

Ana de Armas disagrees with Blonde’s NC-17 rating for sexual content: ‘I didn’t understand why that happened’

Netflix film received the Motion Picture Association’s highest rating in the US

The New Daily

‘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 Guardian - US

Marilyn Monroe’s estate defends Ana de Armas over biopic accent criticism

Cuban-Spanish actor’s accent in movie Blonde disparaged but ABC says she ‘captures Marilyn’s glamour, humanity and vulnerability’

The Guardian - UK

What links Marilyn Monroe to Nick Cave and Vincent Gallo?

With Blonde coming to Netflix soon, follow the ultimate bombshell down the rabbit hole to find unlikely links to the singer and the actor

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Evening Standard

Marilyn Monroe fans give mixed reviews to ‘exploiting’ Netflix Blonde trailer

Ana de Armas has been defended by fans online after some react negatively

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

Blonde author Joyce Carol Oates praises controversial Netflix adaptation of Marilyn Monroe biography

Film is released on the streaming service in September

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

Daily Mirror

Ana de Armas wows fans with stunning Marilyn Monroe transformation for upcoming biopic film

Ana de Armas, who has starred in blockbusters such as No Time To Die and Knives Out, looked unrecognisable as she portrayed the 1950s sex symbol in the film set for release on September 23

The Independent UK

Blonde: Ana de Armas is Marilyn Monroe in first trailer for explicit Netflix biopic

Ana de Armas stars as the late screen icon

The Guardian - US

Blonde: first trailer for ‘disturbing’ Marilyn Monroe biopic released

Netflix film, which has been called ‘startling’ by source author Joyce Carol Oates, stars Ana de Armas as the tragic actor

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