Audiences should see Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe when Blond Coming to Netflix in September . as well as testify the detail that de Armas brings to the emblematic figure the fact that Blond this is The first NC-17 rated Netflix movie aroused the interest of potential viewers. Now that Andrew Dominik’s film has premiered at the Venice Film Festival, critics are evaluating the actress and the performance of the film that promises to “offend everyone”, according to the manager.
With Ana de Armas, the film – that is based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates and it is an imaginary representation of the life of Marilyn Monroe; also features Adrien Brody as Arthur Miller, Bobby Cannavale as Joe DiMaggio, Caspar Phillipson as John F. Kennedy and many more. Let’s see what the critics have to say about the upcoming film. netflix subscribers September 28.
Bilge of Ebiri Vulture He says Blond it is physically difficult to see and “often looks like a slaughterhouse from the animal’s point of view”. The abuse is repetitive, but the film is never boring and Ana de Armas’ performance works, the reviewer says:
Its performance is not quite what one would expect. Without a doubt, she is totally committed to a role that requires an intense physique, lots of nudity and tears. And she skillfully mimics Monroe’s style of wheezing. But she still has traces of her accent, which the film doesn’t hide. You give the whole a somewhat performative quality … which, of course, is the focus of the film. Ana de Armas does not play the role of Marilyn Monroe. In contrast, the role of Marilyn Monroe inhabits Ana de Armas, as a tortured, possibly malevolent spirit.
Caterina Raglia Empire gives the film 3 out of 5 stars, saying the lead actress’s performance is powerful and perhaps too much. The reviewer says that while the book explains how Norma Jeane Baker exists apart from her theatrical character, Andrew Dominik asks his protagonist to always play a perfect Marilyn Monroe. From Review:
There is a fine line between portraying how Marilyn Monroe was underestimated and participating in this assessment. Blonde doesn’t always end up on the right side of that line, but she has some spectacular visual fireworks to sell.
Sophie Monks Kaufman of IndieWire rates the film a C +, saying Blond it only further tarnishes the image of Marilyn Monroe with her story of victimization and exploitation. According to the review, Andrew Dominik warns the world of seeing the actress as nothing more than a restless blonde with daddy issues, but then he treats her the same way. In the words of the critic:
Played by Dominik (who also adapted the script), Norma will never get that much better thing, not even for a second. She rigorously defines her by what she doesn’t have (direction, love, father), which results in a huge lack in de Armas’s seriously compromised performance; she plays a character with no autonomy. Her job, which she performs beautifully in tears and often topless, is to show the wounds inflicted on her, like a sensitive memory foam.
Richard Lawson of dressing table agrees with other reviewers that this nearly three-hour film is “brutal” to watch. Sixty years after the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe, this critic chooses to see Blond through the lens of other women, including Britney Spears, who have been abused by the pressures that come with stardom. The review wonders if Andrew Dominik is aware that he is no different from the people he demonizes:
Blonde is partly about exploitation, which could be exploitation itself. If the film is aware of this characteristic meta, then something interesting is going on. If not, and Dominik thinks he’s really ennobling Monroe and expressing some sort of deep pity for her, then Blonde is a bit mean.
Owen Gleiberman of Variety addresses Ana de Armas casting review , especially in regards to her Cuban accent, saying she only hears “the shimmer, the echo of a Cuban inflection”, and there’s not much to do, because the actress is absolutely becoming Marilyn Monroe. In the words of the critic:
It’s a delightful performance with a raw scream hidden inside. De Armas has to create every nuance of Monroe’s fabulous surface, and he does: the big eyes opening wide in dazzling adoration, the beaming smile, the broken, crooked voice that sounded like a grown woman pretending to be a child. who mocked, with a flash of affection, his own theater of innocence. No living actress will look like Monroe (de Armas’s eyes are a doppelganger; her smile is a little less mature and more aware), but with Marilyn the voice is everything, that’s where her personality lives, and her nails. Of Arms to an astonishing degree. In Blonde, she gives us nothing less than what we came for. She becomes Marilyn Monroe.
Blond It sure sounds like a hard clock, but it’s definitely a movie that many will want to experience on their own, especially the biggest Marilyn Monroe fans. The film will be available on Netflix on Wednesday, September 28th. Be sure to check ours Program of the Netflix movie 2022 to see what else is coming to the streaming service, besides ours 2022 film release schedule to start planning your next visit to the theater.
Source: Cinemablend
