Why is the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde proving so divisive?
In May, Andrew Dominik – the director of Blonde, Netflix’s forthcoming biopic of Marilyn Monroe – predicted that the film would “offend everyone”.A few months on, and he has been proven right.The film isn’t even out yet (it’s scheduled for release on Netflix on 28 September) but the trailer, featuring No Time to Die and Knives Out star Ana de Armas as the late screen icon, has already divided opinion.The controversy is, in part, due to the fact that Blonde is the first film produced by Netflix to carry the rarely awarded…