Blonde author Joyce Carol Oates hails movie adaptation
'Blonde' author Joyce Carol Oates has praised the new movie adaptation. Ana de Armas stars as Norma Jeane Baker/Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik's take on Oates' 2000 novel – which reimagines the life of the tragic Hollywood star – and is impressed with Dominik's film. Speaking at the Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland, Joyce said: "Andrew Dominik is a very brilliant director. I think he succeeded in showing the experience of Norma Jeane Baker from her perspective, rather than see it from the outside, the male gaze looking at a woman. He immersed himself in her pers...