Ana de Armas is as brilliant as I expected her to be but her powerful efforts are regrettably let down severely by an unnuanced and poorly judged screenplay.
I'm torned... Don't know if I like or dislike this movie! Ana de Armas is stunning in this biopic, but isn't it about time we stop making Marilyn Monroe movies!?
The movie is both a daring and empathetic deconstruction of Monroe iconography anchored by a beautiful performance from de Armas, as well as a miserabilist wallow in exploitation.
Frankly, what he and Armas do for Blonde is the equivalent of what great crime directors achieve — forcing you to watch horrifying images and situations without being able to turn away from them...
This is a portrait of Monroe that accentuates her suffering and anguish, canonising her into a feminist saint who died for our scopophilic sins, that we might feast on her beauty and talent.
Ana de Armas proves (again) that she is not just another pretty face. Her Norma Jean impersonation is just jaw-breaking In my opinion this is the most interesting version of picturing the Marylin Monroe character, as controversial as it was.
Ana de Armas plays the role of her career in this film. If you don't think too much about the real story behind it, it's a good modern suprarealistic movie.