The only cinemas where this weekend is projected Blonde, the movie about Marilyn Monroe starring the Cuban Ana de Armas, are in Havana.
The film, presented at the Venice Film Festival last month, has been available in Cuba through the package since the same day it premiered on Netflix for the general public around the world, on September 28, but the cultural authorities have decided to give him privileged space.
Thus, it will be exhibited in the Cuban capital at the emblematic Yara cinema, from this Thursday to Sunday, at 5 pm, and at the Chaplin, from Friday to Sunday, at 6 pm.
If the Ministry of Culture has reached some kind of agreement with the platform on-line responsible for the film, directed by Andrew Dominik, or will broadcast it without respecting any intellectual property rights, is a mystery. Yes, it is known that he will make cash: what is collected from the box office, at 5 pesos the entrance.
If the Ministry of Culture has reached some kind of agreement with the online platform responsible for the film or will broadcast it without respecting any intellectual property rights, it is a mystery
Blonde, Based on the homonymous novel by Joyce Carol Oates, who based on some episodes fabled the life of Marilyn Monroe –born Norma Jean Mortenson–, it seems to have aroused the enthusiasm of the ruling party despite being made in the United States. The reason not only lies in the fact that the protagonist is Cuban, but also in the fact that the film implicitly carries a harsh criticism of the use of the female image by the Hollywood film industry and, incidentally, leaves the then President John F. Kennedy.
Official users on social networks and state media, moreover, agree in applauding Ana de Armas, born in Havana and raised in Santa Cruz del Norte (Mayabeque), who earned criticism in the ranks of exile of Miami for his work in the controversial The Wasp Network (2020), about the five Cuban spies.
The role of the actress as Ana Margarita Martínez, ex-wife of one of the spies, aroused the wrath of the latter, who sued Netflix for “defamation”.
From her, now, can be read in Tribune of Havana: “Supporters and detractors of the film agree in praising Cuban actress Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, in an intense, unsweetened portrait of the legendary platinum blonde.”
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