Marie Gicquel, edited by Laura Laplaud 9:02 a.m., August 31, 2022, modified at 9:02 a.m., August 31, 2022
For this return to school in 2022, a film is expected, the adaptation on the small screen of the novel about Marilyn Monroe, by the American Joyce Carol Oats, which could perhaps win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
To embody the icon of the 1950s, the Cuban-Spanish actress and James Bond girl in her spare time, Ana de Armas.
The Venice Film Festival begins this Wednesday.
A total of 23 films are in competition and among the favorites that could win the Golden Lion,
Blonde
, the small-screen adaptation of the novel about Marilyn Monroe by American author Joyce Carol Oats.
It will have taken Australian director Andrew Dominik 15 years to resurrect this very tormented Marilyn.
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A year of preparation
The exercise is delicate, even perilous.
How to grab the icon?
To embody it, the Cuban actress and James bond girl, Ana de Armas.
A year of lessons in diction and imitation of the star's poses and here she is with a mole on her cheek, a disturbing look-alike of Marilyn.
The film is more fiction than documentary and scratches what lies behind the smile of the 20th century Mona Lisa.
We find Norma Jean Baker, the unloved child and the woman-object always in search of the love of men and the recognition of Hollywood.
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To represent this balance between shadow and light, the production alternates between black and white and color, Norma Jean Baker alone and Marilyn in representation, the thriller and the diary.
Will Blonde
make the Lion of the Venice Film Festival roar?
Broadcast only on Netflix and therefore excluded from the selection of the Cannes Film Festival,
Blonde
will also create the event at the Deauville festival.