MIAMI, United States. – The Yara and Chaplin theaters in Havana will screen the American film Blondestarring Cuban actress Ana de Armas and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Andrew Dominik, according to the official newspaper Tribune of Havana.
Blondewhere Ana de Armas plays the actress and cultural icon Marilyn Monroe, will be screened from Thursday to Sunday of this week at 05:00 and 06:00 in the afternoon.
The film, produced by Netflix, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where Ana de Armas received a 14-minute standing ovation.
Nevertheless, Blonde has generated intense controversy due to the provocative treatment of the image of Marilyn Monroe and several controversial scenes, such as the taking of an abortion from the vagina, and the victimization of the famous American actress.
Still, Arms has received acclaim from film critics.
Blonde is an adaptation of the homonymous novel by the writer Joyce Carol Oates, which mixes real and fictional data to delve into the obsessions and traumatic life of Norma Jean, the real name of Marilyn Monroe.
During the premiere of the film at the Venice Film Festival, De Armas told the AFP agency that I could feel the presence of Marilyn Monroe as she played out her traumatic life on screen for Blonde
According to the agency’s report, the 34-year-old Cuban actress, born in Havana, said she had to go to “uncomfortable, dark and vulnerable” places to represent the harsh reality of the 20th-century icon’s life.
“I really think that she was very close to us, that she was with us,” de Armas told reporters in Venice before the film’s world premiere. “She was everything I thought about, everything I dreamed about, everything I could talk about, she was with me and it was beautiful. She was happy,” she added.
The team of Blonde filmed in the actual house where Monroe, then Norma Jeane Mortenson, was abused by her mentally ill mother as a child, as well as the house where the actress died at age 36.
The film’s director, Andrew Dominik, struggled for 11 years to secure financing and complete the film.
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