Blonde

Warning: SPOILERS for Blonde are ahead!There has been a lot of talk about how unsettling the film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ book Blonde has been to watch scene after scene. This historical fiction perception of Marilyn Monroe’s life is about the abuse that was speculated the Hollywood starlet endured. But after months of pondering why Blonde was rated NC-17, we may have gotten the answer with the sexually brutal scene with viewers saying it went too far.Towards the third part of Blonde, the hardcore scene that…

Planned Parenthood have criticised Netflix movie Blonde as “anti-abortion propaganda”.The 18-rated film, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, features many imagined scenes from the star’s life. It has attracted huge controversy since it was released on the streaming giant earlier this week.Blonde is not a standard biopic, and people have criticised the film as “traumatic” viewing, arguing it is “exploitative” of Monroe, highlighting in particular the multiple scenes of sexual assault that occur…

Joyce Carol Oates, who wrote the book on which Blonde is based, has given her verdict on the controversial adaptation.The film stars Ana De Armas as Marilyn Monroe and features many imagined scenes from the star’s life.Oates has since weighed in on the Netflix adaptation of her 1999 book, which presents a fictionalised take on the American icon’s life. The author – who was not involved in the movie’s production – deemed it a “brilliant work of cinematic art obviously not for everyone”.Since then, she has also defended…

Netflix users are being left particulary outraged by a “horrifying” scene in new Marilyn Monroe film Blonde.The controversial new movie from director Andrew Dominik was adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’s fictional book about Monroe, which was released in 2001.For some time now, the project, which stars Knives Out actor Ana de Armas, has been hyped up as being a shocking watch, with the film being handed an NC-17 age certificate in the US.For those in the UK, this is similar to an 18 – but American directors tend to try and…

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As a teenager, Julianne Nicholson was a Marilyn Monroe “fangirl”. The Emmy-winning star of Mare of Easttown and the jungle thriller Monos devoured every book she could find on her. She watched her films, listened to compilation albums of her songs, had photographs of her taped up in her locker. “I was obsessed,” she recalls. “I thought she was so beautiful and tragic and kind of unknowable.” Now, a few decades later, she’s playing her mother in a movie so incendiary that everyone involved – including star Ana de Armas –…

Credit: Netflix Tina Roesler Kerwin and Jaime Leigh McIntosh are both Emmy-nominated hair and makeup artists with an illustrious roll call of A-list projects on their resume. Top Gun: Maverick, The Gray Man, Magnolia, and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer are just a few projects that have been elevated through their involvement. With that wealth of experience built up over time, it is little wonder that both Tina and Jaime have looked after the likes of Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, and most recently Ana de Armas for…

Netflix users are being left particulary outraged by a “horrifying” scene in new Marilyn Monroe film Blonde.The controversial new movie from director Andrew Dominik was adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’s fictional book about Monroe, which was released in 2001.For some time now, the project, which stars Knives Out actor Ana de Armas, has been hyped up as being a shocking watch, with the film being handed an NC-17 age certificate in the US.For those in the UK, this is similar to an 18 – but American directors tend to try and…

Adrien Brody defended Netflix’s film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ Marilyn Monroe novel, Blonde, amid a divided response.So far, the movie starring Ana de Armas as the 1950s Hollywood icon has been condemned by some critics for its harrowing portrayal of Monroe’s life.In a one-star review for The Independent, Jessie Thompson wrote: “Blonde is not a bad film because it is degrading, exploitative and misogynist, even though it is all of those things. It’s bad because it’s boring, pleased with itself and doesn’t have a…

There are few films so horrifying, brutal and still so stunning as Andrew Dominik's latest feature, Blonde. The closest association I can tether it to is Darren Aronofsky's Mother! and Requiem For A Dream. Both divisive, both gorgeous and both absolutely impossible to watch more than once. Blonde is a reimagined, fictional biopic on the woman the world just cannot let rest, Marilyn Monroe. Dominik brings Marilyn back from grave and gives her the worst life one can imagine. With multiple scenes of rape, harassment, child…