Drama

Blonde

Plan B Entertainment

United States of America

English

Italiano

Ana de Armas

Adrien Brody

Bobby Cannavale

Sara Paxton

Lucy DeVito

Julianne Nicholson

Scoot McNairy

Xavier Samuel

Caspar Phillipson

Evan Williams

Rebecca Wisocky

Toby Huss

Catherine Dent

Haley Webb

Dan Butler

Tygh Runyan

David Warshofsky

Michael Masini

Chris Lemmon

Ned Bellamy

Sonny Valicenti

Tatum Shank

Andrew Thacher

Dominic Leeder

Skip Pipo

Ravil Isyanov

Tim Ransom

Rob Brownstein

Rob Nagle

Ethan Cohn

Mike Ostroski

Christopher Kriesa

Eric Matheny

Kiva Jump

Patrick Brennan

Ryan Vincent

Vanessa Lemonides

Michael Drayer

Claudia Smith

Mary-Pat Green

Ron West

Flynn Platt

Scott Wilder

Sal Landi

Seth Meriwether

Darrin M. Schlie

Julián Rebolledo

Allan Havey

Tereza Rizzardi

Lily Fisher

Spencer Taylor

Denna Thomsen

Parker Harris

Ryan Kanfer

Scott Hislop

Parker Blakely

Chris Moss

Cris Cangero

Brandon Beltran

Patrick Ellis

Luke Kamppila

Richard Biglia

Arne Gjelten

Russell Ridgeway

Jake Brandorff

Bryan Anthony

Jeremy Shouldis

Steve Bannos

Dieterich Gray

Mia McGovern Zaini

Garret Dillahunt

Eden Riegel

Judy Kain

Adam Robinson

Florencia Martin

Christopher Ferguson

Kristin Bree Calabrese

Jessica Jordan

Jon Flores

Jindřich Červenka

Nick Cave

Warren Ellis

Gary Archer

Christina Oh

Jennifer Johnson

Tracey Landon

Andrew Dominik

Brad Pitt

Erin Fite

Liz Briseno

Monica Caldera

Desiree Falcon

Claudia Humburg

Amy Lederman

Tracy Manzo

Cheri Minns

Rosanna Montes

Benjamin Robin

Annie Tagge

Lizbeth Williamson

Don Elliott

Joseph Feld

Allison Isenberg

Masako Masuda

Raoul Bolognini

Jon Campfens

Virginia Cefaly

Peter Denomme

Richard Ivan Mann

Christine McDermott

Phillip Moses

Beau Parsons

Luca Saviotti

Chris Wells

Betsy Glick

Marina Marit

Felicia Molinari

Jennifer Lame

Andrea Norby

John Paul Horstmann

Travis McKay

Leslie Shatz

Kristan Berona

Scott Robertson

Ben Greaves

Chris Navarro

Lisa Pinero

Eva Rismanforoush

Daniel Ward

Erik Soderstrom

Joyce Carol Oates

Dede Gardner

Laray Mayfield

Andrea VanEpps

Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw

Shauna Duggins

Kimberly Shannon Murphy

Michael Cutler

Jameson Everett

Andrew Degryse

Jeremy Kleiner

Peter Andrus

Lynnae Duley

Tina Roesler Kerwin

Jaime Leigh McIntosh

Liv Banks

Aaron C. Fitzgerald

Chayse Irvin

Robert Wilson

Leslie Bloome

Shaun Brennan

Joanna Fang

Ryan Collison

Connor Nagy

Casey Adams

Callie Croughwell

Adam Hart

Sierra Hawkins

Monette Moio

Noah Cruz

Jordan Holtane

Cody Jacobs

Tony Jou

Dana Morris

Bonnie Grisan

Joshua Bramer

Tina Charad

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 acquitted themselves better, I'd say) as she offers an admittedly intense, but remarkably uninvolved performance. We move along from chapter to chapter in her life hindered by some fairly weak and uninspiring dialogue and seriously intrusive scoring in what becomes an increasingly shallow and lacklustre fashion. The photography does try hard - it does offer us a sense of intimacy, but the whole thing is presented in such a stylised and un-natural manner that it is frequently difficult to tell whether she is/was a "real" woman. Her marriages are treated in an almost scant manner - and her relationship with JFK is reduced to something rather implausibly one-sided and sordid showing nothing of how their relationship might have come to be. It has no soul, this film. Aside from her glamour - which was, even then, hardly unique we are not really introduced to any of the nuances of her character, we are left guessing a lot of the time as to just how she did become such a superstar, and how she spiralled so inevitably into a maelstrom of booze and pills. It relies to a considerable extent on the viewer's existing knowledge of, and affection for, this flawed lady. Adrien Brody and Bobby Cannavale don't really have much chance to add anything as her husbands and the highly speculative relationship between her and Charlie Chaplin Jnr (Xavier Samuel) and his sexually ambiguous partner-in-crime Edward G Robinson Jr (Scoot McNairy) does suggest something of the rather profligate and debauched existence that some lived in Hollywood, but again their characters are also largely undercooked and again, we are largely left to use our own imagination. It is far, far too long and in a packed cinema, I could see people looking at the ceiling just once too often. Watchable, certainly, but a real missed opportunity to offer us something scintillating and tantalising about this most of iconic of women.

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 scenes and the large number of characters (_which if you didn't know the story, you wouldn't really know who they are_) of a feature film of almost three hours. The direction is good, although quite experimental where sometimes elements that seem to come out of nowhere are combined. Not to mention the constant switching between color and black/white that doesn't seem to represent anything concrete.

**Ana de Armas's** performance is brilliant, by far the best of the film, despite how poor her character is.

I'm really disappointed, in these times we live in, designing a movie about **Marilyn Monroe** could have contained a much more powerful message. The story of a woman who went through the sexualization of the industry in the 50's. Instead the film only seems to add fuel to the fire by showing nudity at any time and sometimes for no reason.

Based on a story in parts fictitious, with a vision, in my opinion, poorly focused, they make 'Blonde' a great disappointment.

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 representation of reality nor a good work of fiction...

<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, but with this I didn't check at all - as clear a sign as any that I obviously enjoyed it.

I'm not fully convinced why, admittedly. I think it's just really interesting to watch from start-to-finish, the acting is very good and the film is put together well. I wasn't sure about having Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe during the first few scenes, though I quickly lost those thoughts as she gives a great performance.

I get the criticisms (though how many biopics truly stick to reality?) but I predominantly judge films as films, and this is a very watchable one in my books. I'm not saying it's anything special, though for a near 3hr flick to fly by it evidently gave me what I require.

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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