Three hours would be considered too long a runtime for a film. With the help of Ana de Armas, Andrew paints Marilyn Monroe, the stuff of America's wet dreams, in the darkest, gloomiest shades in Netflix's Blonde. Watch the trailer of Blonde here : At the end of the three-hour runtime, you realise Marilyn Monroe is the biggest villain in …
There’s at least one moment in “Blonde,” Andrew Dominik’s dazzling, depressing and fatally incurious movie about Marilyn Monroe, when you might not be sure if you’re watching Ana de Armas or the genuine article. Like his great 2007 western, “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “Blonde” has been conceived as a slow-motion death march: “The Assassination …
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. Most crucially, it’s not factual — it’s based on a novel, “Blonde” by …
Blonde film review: A 'hellish rereading of the Marilyn myth' Netflix Blonde Ana de Armas stars as Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik's latest film, Blonde, which has premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Over the past year, Dominik infamously promised Blonde would "offend everyone", and boldly claimed it would be eternalised as "one of the best films ever made", the …