Movies

"My Week with Marilyn" is entertaining and sufficiently well done to interest anyone who remembers her story. But those who have some exposure to the literature she has generated should be impressed by the way the film manages to represent so many of the very different views there are about her. Was she a smart, predatory woman in control of her persona and milking it for all she could get? The sad addicted victim of her handlers? An ordinary woman looking for love and happiness derailed by her own star quality? The movie represents all of these views and refuses to settle the question. The writer and director are to be congratulated for resisting the temptation to come down on a particular view.

I liked this movie, it was a non-judgemental re-telling of a slice of history. I thought the performances were all very good by the leading characters. I have no idea what the real Marilyn was like and I don't think many people do, but Michelle Williams character is a more than plausible interpretation, vulnerable at times, manipulative at others, who really knows where the reality lies, but there was something for everyone's interpretation. The movie did a good job of depicting that moment in time and transporting the audience there for a couple of hours. I guess it is every man's fantasy to have this opportunity, so the story is a satisfying one for any man who has ever wondered what the real Marilyn may have been like.

Wonderful 2011 film where we see Michelle Williams at her best playing the neurotic, hopelessly unhappy Marilyn Monroe.The movie concerns itself when Marilyn made "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Laurence Olivier in 1956. Olivier was a tough cookie to work for, and Williams pulls out all the stops as the frustrating actress, always late to shootings and an inability to remember her lines.Kenneth Branagh was terrific as Olivier and he and Miss Williams were both deservedly Oscar nominated.Colin Clark, 3rd director to Olivier, formed a one week bond with Marilyn which enabled her to get through the film.Judi Dench has her moments as the sympathetic, and loyal to the unions of yesteryear, as she portrayed Dame Sybil Thorndike.