Blonde Movie Review

Movie Analysis & Review

Blonde, released on 16 September 2022, is an Drama film (Released) with a runtime of 167 minutes. Produced by Plan B Entertainment in United States of America. Directed by Andrew Dominik, the movie features performances by Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Sara Paxton, Lucy DeVito, Julianne Nicholson, Scoot McNairy, Xavier Samuel. The film had a budget of $22.0 million and grossed N/A.
Plot Summary: From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

Cast and Crew

Cast: Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Sara Paxton, Lucy DeVito, Julianne Nicholson, Scoot McNairy, Xavier Samuel
Crew: Adam Robinson (Editor), Florencia Martin (Production Design), Christopher Ferguson (Lighting Design), Kristin Bree Calabrese (Script Supervisor), Jessica Jordan (Additional Script Supervisor), Jon Flores (Sound Effects Editor), Jindřich Červenka (Visual Effects Supervisor), Nick Cave (Original Music Composer)
Director: Andrew Dominik

Overview of Blonde

Release Date: 2022-09-16
Runtime: 167 min
Genres: Drama
Status: Released
Budget: $22,000,000
Revenue: $0
Production: Plan B Entertainment
Countries: United States of America
Certification (IN): A
OTT Providers: Netflix
Keywords: suicide, rape, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, pregnancy, overdose, psychological stress, biography, celebrity, psychological abuse, fame, domestic violence, hollywood, los angeles, california, reality vs fantasy, substance abuse, starlet, traumatic childhood, mother daughter relationship, absent father
External: IMDB

Story & Plot

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

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Reviews

CinemaSerf: What a truly disappointing film this is. It offers us a really slow, sterile and disjointed – almost episodic – depiction of just how Marilyn Monroe's life might have panned out. For a start, I couldn't decide whether Ana de Armas was really Lady Gaga or Scarlett Johansson (both of whom would have a…

Martín Acosta: In the middle of 2022, the movie I was looking forward to the most was '**Blonde**', but… I'm really disappointed.

The film has nowhere to hold on, it's just a fictional compilation of the supposed life of **Marilyn Monroe**, where we don't get context and it's easy to get lost through the scen…

Hossein: This is a movie that shows no other side of Marylin than her being miserable. While watching this movie, if you try to fact-check stuff, you realize that many parts of it are fictitious. Then as you continue watching the movie, you wonder what you're watching. This movie is neither a good representa…

r96sk: <em>'Blonde'</em> is a strange one.

There is nothing about it that I'd scream from the rooftops about, yet the heavy run time of around 2hrs 47mins went by in an absolute flash – not once was I bored with what I was watching; I tend to check how long is left of a movie when I'm finding it dull, b…

misubisu: No wonder Marilyn Monroe overdosed on sleeping pills, I was suicidal well before this movie finished!!
This movie is so depressing that it is hard to watch. I had to jump through numerous parts desperately looking for something even slightly uplifting. I failed.

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