Actress Ana de Armas (“Deep Waters”) criticized the age rating she received for her film “Blonde,” a biopic of actress Marilyn Monroe. In an interview with French magazine L’Officiel, Armas said he could not understand why the film was rated “NC-17”, only suitable for people over the age of 18 in the United States and used primarily for films featuring a lot of sex.
“I can list several shows or movies that are much more graphic, with much more sexual content than ‘Blonde’,” he said. “But in order to tell this story it was important to show all those moments in Marilyn’s life that ended up that way. She needed to be explained. [no elenco] we knew we had to go to uncomfortable places. I was not the only one. “
“NC-17” was an age rating created in 1990 to prevent the release of “Henry & June” from receiving the “X” rating, which was higher at the time and used for pornographic films. It differs from the “R” in that it prohibits minors from seeing the film even if accompanied by their parents, and from the “X” lasts in that it is more of a montage of explicit scenes. Since its inclusion, “NC-17” has become the highest censorship of movie theaters associated with the MPAA, the motion picture industry entity responsible for the US rating system, pushing the “X” to adult videos.
“Blonde” is an adaptation of the book of the same name, by Joyce Carol Oates, which mixes reality and fiction to tell the story of the legendary movie star. The film was written and directed by Andrew Dominik (“The Killer of Jesse James for the Cowardly Robert Ford”), who expected that kind of evaluation.
“It’s a challenging film. If the audience doesn’t like it, it’s the audience’s problem. The film is not running for public office,” the director said in an interview with Screen Daily. “It’s an NC-17 movie about Marilyn Monroe, that’s kind of what you want, right? I want to see the NC-17 version of the Marilyn Monroe story.”
The director also said that Netflix, which produced and will distribute the film, insisted on hiring editor Jennifer Lame (“Tenet”) “to curb the film’s excesses,” which includes a much-discussed rape scene from Oates’s book. .
In addition to Ana de Armas, the cast includes Adrien Brody (“The French Chronicle”) as writer Arthur Miller and Bobby Cannavale (“The Irishman”) as baseball player Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn’s ex-husbands.
“Blonde” will premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which began on Wednesday (8/31), before arriving on Netflix on September 28th. Watch the movie trailer below.
Source: Terra
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