Some critics prefer “blonde.”

The Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, winning several reviews for its portrayal of the 1950s blonde bombshell home compliments.

Adapted from Joyce Carroll Oates’ novel of the same name, the film was released for nearly three hours, and the audience stood up for 14 minutes, making De Armas burst into tears. According to variety.

“Andrew Dominic’s Venice Film Festival competition entry ‘Blonde’ shines a light on the whole concept of a Hollywood biopic and achieves something with almost no precedent,” Deadline’s critics say.

“[‘Blonde’] It’s literally concocting new insults for the most aggressive and perpetually persecuted heroine outside of a John Waters movie, and she has to suffer. ”

As the first Netflix film to receive an NC-17 rating, “Blonde” sparked a backlash almost immediately when it debuted its first trailer in July because she’s Cuban and her accent isn’t “authentic.”

Variety Critic Owen Gleberman disagree with his commentsaying that the film is “built around Ana de Armas’ performance, breathtakingly sparkling and imaginative, candid and heartbreaking. It’s a sweet performance that hides the raw sharpness in it. cry.”

“No living actress looks like Monroe (De Armas has dead eyes; her smile is a bit immature and knowledgeable), but for Marilyn, voice is everything – this That’s where her personality is — and De Armas nailed it to an incredible level,” he added.

“In ‘Blonde,’ she gave us as much as we could. She became Marilyn Monroe.”

Despite the rave reviews, some critics found that “The Blonde” robbed Monroe of her own sense of urgency.

“It’s a portrait of Monroe that highlights her pain and suffering, canonizing her as a feminist saint to die for our sin of voyeurism,” wrote the guardian.

“The mental framing is very old-school Hollywood Freudian, which doesn’t give Monroe much agency in her story.”

Other critics are just bored by the topic.

“It’s such an insane act of excess and questionable cruelty that it makes you wonder how many more times and in more creative ways we’re going to continue to torture, humiliate and kill this abused woman,” he said. Blame the Hollywood Reporter.

However, social media users are divided over the upcoming movie.

“Saw ‘Blonde’ commenting that the movie was a total dog – I laughed from ear to ear,” twitter user.

“If ‘Blonde’ is really a nearly 3-hour sexual assault showcase (as many of the early reviews suggest), then I don’t think I’ll be able to watch it,” another said.

“Count me as a pro-blonde! Any swaggering movie would stumble at a little over 166 minutes, but a potential project exploring how Hollywood is destroying actresses is a hit. Ana de Armas is great,” exclaim a user.

“Blonde. Ana de Armas shines in Dominica’s heartbreaking fictional biopic,” Twitter another.

“I made this film to push myself … to get other people to change their minds about me,” De Armas told The Associated Press. “This movie changed my life.”

“I wasn’t in the character all the time. But I felt it. That’s how I lived it. I felt the weight and the weight on my shoulders. I felt that sadness,” she added. “She’s everything I think about. She’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of. She’s everything I talk about…beautiful.”

Blonde is currently set to premiere on screen on September 18, 2022, before hitting Netflix on September 28.