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Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe, one of the greatest cinema icons of all time. The reactions after the first trailers were all the harsher. Above all, the accent of the actress, born in Cuba, has been criticized. Even the Monroe Legacy Administration and producer Brad Pitt had to protect her.
According to the blonde of 165 minutes at the Venice Film Festival, one thing is certain: Ana de Armas plays terribly in the biopic, which is at most as creepy hollywood horror movie work. The No Time To Die and Knives Out star is simply better than Blonde, but that almost alone makes the Netflix movie worth watching.
Blond at Netflix portrays the life and death of a cinema icon as a horror movie
Director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) adapts Blond from the novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates, based on the biography of Marilyn Monroe. Born Norma Jean Baker in Los Angeles, she had a difficult childhood with a mentally ill mother, in an orphanage and with adoptive parents.
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She rose to prominence as a model in the 40s and as a movie star, Marilyn Monroe has become one of the images that epitomizes the glory and misery of the dream factory around the world. Her marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio (Bobby Cannavale) and playwright Arthur Miller (Adrien Brody) fueled gossip columns, and mental health and addiction issues plagued her until his tragic death in 1962. .
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Blond basically tells this story from beginning to end. But don't fall into the misconception that this is a conventional biopic. Blond bucks conventional narratives and is packed with moments meant to shock. Anyone who's ever wanted to see US President John F. Kennedy get sucked off will find their way on Netflix starting September 28.
In principle, it's welcome, because if there's one thing the world doesn't need, it's also a soporific biography. The blonde is anything but soporific. In its nearly 165 minutes, Monroe's film feels like a journey through traumatic experiences remembered in the delirium of tranquilizers and alcohol.
The Netflix movie tells a story of misery, abuse and betrayal
Occasionally, the script evokes the rise of Norma Jean, taken over by Abuse, exploitation and private setbacks is in relief. Nearly drowned by her mother as a child, bullied by studio bosses as an adult, beaten by her husband, and betrayed by the few friends she has.
Andrew Dominik dresses up the Hollywood horror story Hades in brilliant black-and-white and pale-color film. He plays with image formats and other techniques of alienation until Norma Jean lives like a endless nightmare appears with a handful of fleeting moments of happiness.
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Happiness seems to be just an excuse for the next punch in the stomach of her tragic main character to land. One of the few exceptions is a heady threesome with two movie star sons, whose orgasms create surreal worlds of imagery we rarely see in American movies. With almost avant-garde ideas, Blond scrapes a moving cinematic experience. The misery of the movie constantly undoes that.
Ana de Armas plays two different horror characters with Marilyn and Norma Jean
To finish only overwhelms Ana de Armas, which takes care of playing an inaccessible movie icon. The iconic Marilyn Monroe is seen in the film as a suffocating role that Norma Jean plays until she is consumed by it. To be Marilyn Monroe means to be in the chains of a horror villain whose mask consists of peroxide blonde hair, strawberry red lips and a beauty mark.
Ana de Armas impresses with her unreserved interpretation of Norma Jean and Marilyn. The resemblance is striking in places, but marginal. The actress appropriates the two faces of the star represented in the film. the the seductive Marilyn and the fragile Norma Jean with the breathy voice and the big moving eyes. De Armas is marvelous as a blonde because she resists her director's exuberant style, erratic narrative and monotonous story.
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Blond
She makes the soul of a movie star the common thread of the blonde. A movie star who is little more than an image in the collective memory. The image of a white dress inflated by the hot air of a metro shaft. This famous scene from Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch is repeated so often in slow motion in Blond that it would be too good even for Zack Snyder.
Unfortunately, Blond has little to say about Marilyn Monroe's films and her development as an actress. How Monroe fought for independence as an artist in a restrictive system that others could only dream of is of little interest to Blond. After all, it's much easier than this woman defenseless victim of the fate of the stars to be considered, for as an active shaper of her own fame.
And yes, even the two movie star sons of the fantastically dreamy trio will end up cheating on Norma Jean.
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