Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas, “Knives Out”) was one of the most iconic movie stars of all time, but as imagined in Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, Marilyn didn’t just play roles, her whole persona was one and the woman behind the famous face, Norma Jeane Baker, struggled to keep from...
“Blonde” abuses and exploitsMarilyn Monroeall over again, the way so many men did over the cultural icon’s tragic, too-short life. Maybe that’s the point, but it creates a maddening paradox: condemning the cruelty the superstar endured until her death at 36 while also reveling in it...
The movie is heavily concerned with differentiating betweenNorma JeaneandMarilyn Monroe, but I did not get a sense of getting to know either one of the two. That is because the film is torture porn as it paintsMonroein such a miserable light that she never becomes anything more than just a...
MPAA Rating: NC-17 Year of Release: 2022 Country: U.S. Blonde, Andrew Dominik's much-debated adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's 700-page fictionalized novel about Marilyn Monroe, is a film that is so good and so bad in equal measure that it is hard to even begin to gauge it. Every...
Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas) asks her soon-to-be husband (Bobby Cannavale) this on their first date. It's a question this baffling movie will likely leave you asking after it's over. Blondeis the long-gestating adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's mammoth fictional account of Monroe's life...
Ultimately, a respectable movie exists somewhere within all the repetition and dawdling artistry (a nearly three-hour runtime is terribly unnecessary), but Dominik’s cut can’t manage to single that out, instead leaving a prolonged, unsatisfying fictionalization of all of Marilyn Monroe’s most ...
Watch:Ana de Armas REACTS to NC-17 Rating for Blonde Movie If you believeBlonde,Marilyn Monroenever had a moment's happiness in her all-too-short life. Not that youshouldbelieveBlonde, featuring anOscar-nominated performancebyAna de Armasas the indisputably tragic bombshell. ...
Read More: ‘Blonde’: Marilyn Monroe’s Estate & Brad Pitt Praise Ana De Armas Casting Amid BacklashAn Nc-17 rating usually spells box-office doom for any film that receives it, but “Blonde” avoids that issue thanks to Netflix.Continue reading ‘Blonde’: Ana De Armas “Doesn’t ...
This Year's Blonde: Directed by John Erman. With Lloyd Bridges, Constance Forslund, Norman Fell, Vic Tayback. Follows the early career of Marilyn Monroe and her relationship with Hollywood agent Johnny Hyde.
Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” is about to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which means moviegoers will finally get to find out why the Marilyn Monroe drama is rated NC-17. The rating has generated significant buzz for the movie, which casts Ana de Armas as the ...