THB #219: Blonde. A Review.

How can I be deeply admiring this film and also hating it at the same time?

Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is so skillfully made and it is so clearly precisely what the filmmaker wanted it to be that the disconnected nature of its storytelling is quite breathtaking.

It’s like being a 20something and getting to make out with the most beautiful person in a room full of beautiful people and finding out that they don’t know how to kiss. You don’t want to stop kissing because this person is sooooooo attractive… but as it’s happening, everything about it is awkward and laughably wrong.

I wouldn’t say that Ana de Armas is revelatory in this role. But she is as good as I would expect any actor to be in a tightly-directed role. People who were complaining about her accent seem like nit-pickers to me. Really, I barely ever heard her slip at all. Silly complaint. And she has the sex appeal. Her eyes show intelligence and pain. She hit every note that was asked of her.

There is lots of excellent and some…