Blonde
Lightening in a bottle: why 2022 was the year we all went blond
Blondness is back. Post pandemic, tweed blond, ice cube blond and rose gold blonds have been everywhere from celebrities and influencers to schoolkids and footballers. Why this colourful saturation?
Hannah Jane Parkinson
27, Dec, 2022 @8:00 AM
If Blonde is a feminist film, why is Marilyn Monroe still being exploited? | Martha Gill
The movie, and TV shows like it, merely add women’s mental and physical suffering to the misogynist mix
Martha Gill
02, Oct, 2022 @5:30 AM
Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde
Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth
Lauren Mechling
28, Sep, 2022 @7:01 AM
Blonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters
Andrew Dominik’s gothic portrait of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe – an extraordinary Ana de Armas – is a fever dream of childhood trauma haunting adult life
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
25, Sep, 2022 @7:00 AM
Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film
Glossy horror perpetuates the tradition of portraying the brilliant actor as an infantile, sacrificial sex-lamb on the altar of celebrity
Peter Bradshaw
21, Sep, 2022 @12:00 PM
Blonde review – Some like it rotten: Monroe biopic is moving, explicit and intensely irritating
Venice film festival: Andrew Dominik’s controversial drama finds space for talking foetuses, presidential sex and a starry throuple – but denies its subject sufficient agency
Leslie Felperin
08, Sep, 2022 @5:00 PM
‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set
Director Andrew Dominik also says that scenes for the controversial Netflix release, filmed in the room where the iconic actor died were ‘like a seance’
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
08, Sep, 2022 @3:20 PM
The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth
Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction
Anthony Summers
29, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM
Blonde: first trailer for ‘disturbing’ Marilyn Monroe biopic released
Netflix film, which has been called ‘startling’ by source author Joyce Carol Oates, stars Ana de Armas as the tragic actor
Benjamin Lee
16, Jun, 2022 @2:26 PM
Blonde: will a shocking new film shatter the myth of Marilyn Monroe?
From Cannes to the Met Gala, the screen icon’s lucrative legacy lives on. But how will a new film affect the way the world sees her?
Catherine Shoard
13, May, 2022 @1:48 PM
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