The musician, who composed the score for the Netflix film with Warren Ellis, was asked to name his favourite film ever by a fan on his newsletter The Red Hand Files.
Cave previously collaborated with Dominik on 2016 documentary film One More Time With Feeling, which documents the recording of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ sixteenth album, Skeleton Tree.
“In the movies, they chop you all to bits,” Ana de Armas’s Marilyn Monroe says about halfway through Blonde. “It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, but you’re not the one to put it together.” She’s supposedly talking about the way all movies are put together, but of course, it’s also a thinly veiled reference to the way this particular movie has been put together. (Vulture)
The reviews are mixed (and controversial!), but it seems agreed upon that the score is pretty good. That score was done by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, the frequent collaborators who have carved out quite a nice lane in the film-scoring world. (Stereogum)
Check out Cave and Ellis’ Blonde score below.
Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood's most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe, (actress,Ana de Armas). From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, Blonde blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.
“Watched by all. Seen by none.” That’s the tag line on the poster for Andrew Dominik’s Blonde, the director’s . . . what? fugue-state reverie? necrology? . . . of Joyce Carol Oates’ reimagining of the myth of Marilyn Monroe.
