Ana de Armas surely earns an Oscar nomination for her leading role in 'Blonde', delivering a spotlight performance of Marylin Monroe as we have never seen so deeply portrayed before in film. Exploited and abused by virtually everyone in her life, Marilyn's life rapidly erodes after aborting and losing all her pregnancies, being drugged into a stupor by doctors (such being ordered by directors and producers to complete films and keep her from career-interrupting motherhood), and essentially robbed of her self-identity, Norma Jean replaced by film's most infamously manufactured and manipulated sex fantasy kitten Marylin Monroe.
Paralleling Judy Garlands tragic life surrounded by manipulative and exploitive people; Marylin only made it to age 36 (Judy 47).
The surreal and ethereal nightmarish atmosphere of the final portion of film created by Dominik and Cinematographer Chayse Irvin mimics the final years of Marylin's life when drugs and alcohol blurred reality and soon took her life away forever.
The first truly Oscar worthy film of the year, Ana de Armas earns my vote for nomination as Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Andrew Dominik deserves the nod for Director, and Irvin has perhaps the best shot to take home a statuette for his hauntingly beautiful photography.
Whether they hold up thru the heart of Oscar season is too soon to say, but the Oscar games are now officially open, and Blonde is the leading the way.
Paralleling Judy Garlands tragic life surrounded by manipulative and exploitive people; Marylin only made it to age 36 (Judy 47).
The surreal and ethereal nightmarish atmosphere of the final portion of film created by Dominik and Cinematographer Chayse Irvin mimics the final years of Marylin's life when drugs and alcohol blurred reality and soon took her life away forever.
The first truly Oscar worthy film of the year, Ana de Armas earns my vote for nomination as Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Andrew Dominik deserves the nod for Director, and Irvin has perhaps the best shot to take home a statuette for his hauntingly beautiful photography.
Whether they hold up thru the heart of Oscar season is too soon to say, but the Oscar games are now officially open, and Blonde is the leading the way.