''Blonde' is a film about performance and the many ways in which it conceals and reveals. To that end, Ana de Armas’ turn is nothing short of a tour de force.' - nschager Read the full review of the highly-anticipated film:
)—who view her as a “vessel” for their selfish wants and needs, and toss her aside when she can’t, or won’t, fulfill them.is a vortex of surrogate fathers, impersonations and projections, all of them blending and doubling back on themselves in borderline-hallucinatory fashion. Collaborating with cinematographer Chayse Irvin, Dominik flip-flops between black-and-white and color, as well as employs varying film speeds, degrees of focus and aspect ratios, with balletic fluidity.
—the last of Monroe’s would-be “daddy” figures—which solidifies the proceedings as a rapturous torture chamber of misogynistic exploitation and abuse. The horror of being sculpted into, and therefore reduced to, merely a sexual plaything courses through the film’s veins, and is epitomized by a late slow-motion red-carpet panorama of screaming male admirers’ faces, their mouths warping into monstrous-style maws.
Love and sadism, togetherness and alienation, compassion and brutality, Norma and Marilyn, Marilyn and de Armas—there are no boundaries in Dominik’s film, just a woozy cine-swirl of intertwined compulsions, affectations, and tears.’s grandeur stems from its marriage of the entrancing and the appalling, as well as its understanding that the two were, for Monroe, lifelong bedfellows.
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