Film Review: 'Blonde'

Netflix's biopic of the '50s bombshell is troubling, yet beautiful

BREAKFAST IN BED: Photo by Andre de Dienes (1953). Image: Artsy

The image of Marilyn Monroe, “Breakfast in Bed,” with her covered only by a white bed sheet, with a tray of eggs and milk, hung on the living room wall in my State College apartment back in 1998.

More than 20 years later, I spent a Saturday night on the love seat with my wife watching Blonde…