Ana de Armas in Exquisite Images by Craig McDean for AnOther Magazine FW 2022 AOC Fashion

British photographer, New York-based Craig McDean [IG] has outdone himself with new images of actor Ana de Armas for AnOther Magazine [IG]. Katie Shillingford styled de Armas in Louis Vuitton for the cover and inside fashion story, adding Alaïa, Bottega Veneta, JW Anderson, LOEWE, Maison Margiela, Oliver Theyskens, Rick Owens and more. De Armas wears Tiffany & Co jewelry in most images./ Hair by Orlando Pita; makeup by Francelle Daly

In an interview with Hannah Lack, How Ana de Armas Became the Most Famous Woman in the World, de Armas discusses playing Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s much anticipated adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Blonde’, arriving on Netflix Sept. 28.

Reading the early reviews now, it’s important that those of us who love and know well the Marilyn Monroe story formulate our own opinions. Personally, Marilyn has appeared in my dreams — along with Anais Nin — in my grandmother’s living room, suggesting that I live quite close to her persona.

The Jezebel review is more vulgar and ‘flip’ than most, but its train of thought is consistent with several others that I just read. I’ll go with the New Yorker review [next paragraph] , because it runs closest to Lack’s interview, which is well worth the read.

‘Blonde’ is ‘The The Passion of the Christ” for Marilyn Monroe by Richard Brody.

When Marilyn becomes pregnant, it’s through one of the most sophomoric effects I’ve ever seen. She spends an evening outdoors with the two Juniors, talking astrology while looking up at a sky full of stars that begin to move and then morph into squiggling sperm. Her fetus is then shown in the womb, and that fetus returns to the movie repeatedly, in C.G.I. fetus follies that ultimately involve it speaking to her. Marilyn gets an abortion, in order to act in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”; this is traumatic, as is a later miscarriage and another, vaguely suggested subsequent abortion. Through all of these episodes, the straining for poignancy and subjectivity is done crudely and callously. A view upward and out, from the point of view of Marilyn’s vagina toward the abortionist, evokes Dominik’s own violation and misuse of the character’s body. Amid such grotesquerie and such vulgarity, de Armas’s performance alone, energetic and nuanced, lends the film a modicum of dignity.

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