This was the most insightful account of Marilyn Monroe's life I have seen. With a novelist's intuition, Joyce Carol Oates has focused on MM's emotional neediness as the key to her character and the film faithfully reproduces this. Her mother won't tell her who her father is, and all her relationships with men are proxies for this lost part of who she is. It is no accident that she calls both Joe Di Maggio and Arthur Miller "Daddy". Poppy Montgomery does a stunning job in the most difficult part any actress could be called upon to play - reproducing what was basically a unique persona. I thoroughly recommend this film.
In Australia Blonde was shown on TV as a movie on a single night and therefore cut back from 4 to 3 hours - this condensation of the story may have helped it's impact.
In Australia Blonde was shown on TV as a movie on a single night and therefore cut back from 4 to 3 hours - this condensation of the story may have helped it's impact.