Nick Cave says ‘Blonde’ is his favorite movie of all time

Nick Cave has named the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde his favorite movie of all time.

The musician, who composed the rating for the Netflix movie with Warren Ellis, was requested to call his favorite movie ever by a fan on his e-newsletter The Red Hand Files.

In response to the query, Cave merely wrote: “Blonde. Love, Nick.”

Directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Ana de Armas, Blonde relies on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates and is described as a “reimagining” of Monroe’s life.

A synopsis reads: “Blonde boldly reimagines the life of 1 Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her unstable childhood as Norma Jeane, by way of her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, Blonde blurs the traces of reality and fiction to discover the widening cut up between her private and non-private selves.”

Earlier than the movie was launched final month, the movie attracted controversy over its NC-17 score within the US attributable to graphic scenes. The movie additionally divided critics, with some deeming it as “exploitative” and “problematic” in its depiction of Monroe as a sufferer.

Others, nonetheless, praised the movie as an efficient psychological horror. In a four-star assessment, NME wrote: “It’s not a straightforward watch and there’s a lingering sense of a movie attempting to have its cake and eat it. It underlines the purpose that Monroe’s performing prowess was missed with out specializing in her craft… However there’s a humanity to de Armas’ efficiency that cuts by way of the exploitation and by immersing us on the centre of her slowly shattering psyche, it’s an formidable trespass towards good style.

“Like all efficient horror, Blonde unsettles you lengthy after the credit roll.”

Cave beforehand collaborated with Dominik on 2016 documentary movie One Extra Time With Feeling, which paperwork the recording of Nick Cave And The Dangerous Seeds’ sixteenth album, Skeleton Tree.