Michelle Williams. Marilyn Monroe. Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. It’s time to see what all the fuss is about. So our pick of the films opening today is My Week with Marilyn.
Here’s the trailer:
If you go see it, let us know if it lives up to the hype.
In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark, just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl. The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. Nearly 40 years on, his diary account “The Prince, the Showgirl and Me” was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as “My Week with Marilyn” – this is the story of that week.
Directed by Simon Curtis, the film stars Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine), Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet), Eddie Redmayne (The Good Shepherd), Emma Watson (Harry Potter), Julia Ormond (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Toby Jones (Frost Nixon), Derek Jacobi (The King’s Speech), Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible II), Zoe Wanamaker (TV’s My Family), and Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!).
