From Joyce Carol Oates' novel.
Ana de Armas is fabulous as Marilyn Monroe, but the film is long and pretentious (e.g. in its arbitrary changes of three different aspect ratios and colour to B&W) and we only made it through 90 minutes of a total of 167. Romantic triangle plot is totally redundant. Beginning with young Norma Jean (Lily Fisher) and mad mum Julianne Nicholson (August Osage County) is probably the best bit.
Dominik also made Killing Them Softly. I wish I'd realised, as that was another film we started and then gave up (after 34 minutes).
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