The Real Blonde Reviews

Honestly, it has been a while since I have seen this flick but, if I recall it correctly, I even saw it in the movie theater when it was released. Personnaly, I always thought that Tom DiCillo had an intriguing career. Indeed, he started in the 80’s as a cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch and in 1991, he made his directing debut ‘Johnny Suede’ (which I still need to see) starring an unknown actor at the time called Brad Pitt. Even though this movie got some decent reviews, DiCillo struggled with his follow-up and he got so frutstrated that he then made ‘Living in Oblivion’ concerning the difficult journey to create a low-budget movie. I really loved ‘Living in Oblivion’ and, suddenly, DiCillo came up with 2 other movies quickly after, ‘Box of Moon Light’ and this flick. Apparently, this feature was pretty much a commercial and critical flop and DiCillo’s career never really recovered from the blow but I thought it was actually pretty good. Indeed, it was basically another interesting look on the difficult life of the people involved in the movie business and while not everything did work (the whole ‘real blonde’ fetish was rather underwhelming), I thought it was a decent watch and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.