Fresh
I believe the heart of the film, and the cleverest stroke of all, is Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark, someone few of us will have heard of.
David Thomson, The New Republic
My Week with Marilyn
She's worth all the trouble.
2011 · 1h 39m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Simon Curtis
Overview
London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.
Director and cast
- Simon Curtis Director
- Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe
- Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier
- Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark
- Dominic Cooper as Milton Greene
- Judi Dench as Sybil Thorndike
- Philip Jackson as Roger Smith
- Derek Jacobi as Sir Owen Morshead
- Toby Jones as Arthur Jacobs
- Michael Kitchen as Hugh Perceval
- Julia Ormond as Vivien Leigh
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
That's all familiar lore but, to his credit, director Simon Curtis lays out these separate ambitions and conflicting tensions with breezy dispatch in the early frames.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
A dubious idea done in by Adrian Hodges's shallow script and Simon Curtis's clumsy direction.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Fresh
[Williams] floats through the movie, perfectly capturing Monroe's way of rhythmically whispering through a song, looking softly frightened when uncertain, and not strolling so much as delicately oozing across the floor.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
Williams is a more three-dimensional Monroe than the love goddess herself. The performance is both an eerie imitation and a touching revelation.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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