Review of Blonde (2022) by Mauro_Lanari — 01 Oct 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

I would not classify the style chosen by Dominik as dreamlike, expressionistic or surrealist: he identified with his protagonist and decided to tell her in subjective. But who would she be? One who would have lived traumatically inelaborable childhood experiences: she could be an ordinary woman or any person, instead a diva was selected showing her split between Norma Jeane's soul and Marylin's body, from which the synthesis "Blonde". To clarify such a simple concept, the time of a medium-length film would have been enough, while the director wanted to empathetically follow his victim in a 2 hours and 46 minutes long repetition compulsion. By purging the marathon from the cloudburst of crying scenes, one would have fall within the proper lìmits of duration. Then: havin' never felt interest in the phenomenon of stardom, I am unable to judge whether there is also a complaint towards the star-system: I hope not, since Dominik's operation has as its only sure effect to launch de Armas in the empyrean of the planetary divism. Finally: if at the Venice Film Festival the film was applauded 14 minutes, evidently there are those who can afford the aesthetic care to repair such a skinning of the hands.