Blonde (2022) (original) (raw)

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. (less)

Director: Andrew Dominik
Writers: Andrew Dominik, Joyce Carol Oates
Starring: Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher
Producers: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Tracey Landon, Scott Robertson (XVIII)

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Review by Brian Orndorf, September 16, 2022

7 / 10

�Blonde� began life as a 2000 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, who presented a fictionalized version of Marilyn Monroe�s life, playing up her torturous experiences and the violence, in many forms, forced on her by men. The book was quickly adapted into a 2001 television miniseries, sanitized for the mass audience, and now returns to the screen in an NC-17 interpretation, with writer/director Andrew Dominik (�Killing Them Softly,� �The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford�) free to explore the murky headspace of the subject as she craves to be treated humanely, only to face horror. ...read more...

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