After its screening in the official section of the Venice Film Festival, Blonde, the film in which Ana de Armas pleasantly surprised her as Marilyn Monroe, will stop in San Sebastian as the surprise film of this 70th edition, as announced by the organization of the San Sebastian contest.

Based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the biopic is directed by Andrew Dominik, director of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Cowardly Robert Ford or Kill Them Softly, who will accompany the Cuban-Spanish actress at the presentation of the film next Saturday. September 24 at 7:00 p.m. at the Victoria Eugenia theatre, a few hours before the winners are announced.

Blonde has Brad Pitt among its producers and is an approach to the figure of the mythical American actress who explores the division between her public and private self. Netflix will premiere it on September 28.

At 34 years old, Ana de Armas is experiencing her sweetest moment on a professional level. Popular in Spain since he participated in the series El internado, then he moved to Los Angeles and has appeared in various roles in titles such as Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), Daggers in the Back (Rian Johnson, 2019), or Sin time to die, (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021), in which she played a Bond girl.