Blonde

"Watched by all, seen by none."

2022 2h 47m EN

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5.9

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★5.9TMDB · 1,578

Drama

Synopsis

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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.

“Watched by all, seen by none.”

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Cast

Ana de Armas
Norma Jeane / Marilyn Monroe
Adrien Brody
The Playwright
Bobby Cannavale
The Ex-Athlete
Sara Paxton
Miss Flynn
Lucy DeVito
Ex-Athlete's Niece
Julianne Nicholson
Gladys
Scoot McNairy
Tommy Ewell / Richard Sherman
Xavier Samuel
Cass Chaplin

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Andrew Dominik
Writers: Andrew Dominik
Languages: English, Italian
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 167 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Italian.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Andrew Dominik, shot by Chayse Irvin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Nick Cave. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Adam Robinson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Ana de Armas and Adrien Brody and Bobby Cannavale carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Watched by all, seen by none.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Andrew Dominik directs. Chayse Irvin behind the camera. Nick Cave scores. Adam Robinson cuts. A long sit — settle in. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Italian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Clocks in at 167 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2Released 4 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, Italian.
4Directed by Andrew Dominik, shot by Chayse Irvin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Nick Cave. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Adam Robinson shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Ana de Armas and Adrien Brody and Bobby Cannavale carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Watched by all, seen by none.".
9IMDB entry: tt1655389 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 24 themes, including "suicide", "rape", "husband wife relationship", "based on novel or book".

The technical file

Cinematography: Chayse Irvin
Original score: Nick Cave
Editing: Adam Robinson
Production design: Florencia Martin
Costume design: Jennifer Johnson
Makeup / hair: Annie Tagge
VFX supervisor: Jindřich Červenka
Sound: Leslie Shatz
Stunt coordinator: Tracy Keehn-Dashnaw
Runtime: 167 min · 2h 47m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $22,000,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NC-17
IMDB: Blonde (2022)

Awards

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture

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CinemaSerf2022-09-24
★ 6/10
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 Acosta2022-10-02
★ 4/10
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.
Hossein2022-10-08
★ 2/10
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...