If you are ambitious to make a realistic portrait of a painted historical figure, you will almost certainly have to go to the bottom. You decide to give freedom of interpretation and to trust the naive, simple-human view of an innocent, in love young creature - there is a chance for a good coincidence of circumstances. The director of "My Week with Marilyn" Simon Curtis relies on this. For the 52-year-old TV series and filmmaker, this project is a debut in the "big cinema," but no element in it suggests uncertainty or hesitation - everything looks exactly the same as we would have imagined the place in the era. The most wanted woman of all modern times, Marilyn Monroe stands in front of the camera to the biggest British actor Sir Lawrence Olivier. He wants to revive his career, she - to touch professional acting.
The few months of working together are a test for both. Forty years later, the third production assistant director, Colin Clark, offers the ever-thirsty audience their personal notes titled "The Prince and the Showgirl and Me," which details details of the film's set. He falls there 23 years old, just graduated from Oxford and full of enthusiasm for work, in love with ears in cinema. His encounter with the acting giants literally changed his world, and years later Clark released a missing week with memories - "My Week with Marilyn". The film behind the producers David Parfit and Harvey Weinstein is based on Colin Clark's diaries. The risky idea of reviving cinema icons in images that stand naturally in front of the audience of the 21st century is more than a challenge. Director Curtis can not believe his chance when it becomes clear he will take over the project. She suggests writer Adrian Hodges (with whom he worked for David Copperfield) to prepare photo material from Clark's memories. Originally skeptical, Hodges finds an interesting and unconventional image of a star that has every chance to shine on the screen again. For the role of Marilyn, the director can not imagine another actress except Michelle Williams. She, in turn, is determined to do everything - really everything she is capable of not betraying the credibility of the film crew and above all - not disappointing the viewers.
Thanks to the enchanting the oscar winner Eddie Redmayne ( and in this time a 20-year-old man who has played on Shakespeare's Globe Theater), who already has an enviable stage, television and cinema experience, and of course the flawless Michelle Williams, "My Week with Marilyn "can safely bear the definitions as" mandatory "and" impressive ". Without pretentious artifice, no obsession with the likeness of real faces and events, with no skeptic eyebrows of mistrust, the film is a leap in time - light and exquisite, tasteful in detail, with a sense of recreation. A young person helps a star feel calm and loved, protected and appreciated for her own - the woman, which is in fact not a constructed and exploited media image. The two main actors are doing great with their assignments. Kenneth Branra (in the role of Sir Lawrence Olivier) also offers unparalleled professionalism - how does this person manage to be so accurate. Surely the explanation lies in his British nature. Several minor images are needed and charming additions to the overall picture, though they appear briefly: Vivian Lee , another husband Arthur Miller (Dougre Scott), Marilyn's delicate bodyguard (Philippe Jackson) and - of course - the great and unbeatable Judy Dench, who in her role as an actress in the prepared film literally saves Marilyn from her insecurity.
One must not miss a very important fact - the musical performances in the film by Michelle Williams - she sings and dances to fascinate viewers as she had the chance to do with her famous heroine. Who can be angry about the character she has? Marilyn falls into strange moods, distraught, frivolous, unhappy, seemingly uninterested in anything but the way it is perceived by others - but Michelle manages to approach so gently to the familiar image that all his imperfections fall into the background. And in the memory of the viewer there is a feeling of warmth, sympathy, and empathy in the memory of the viewer - to the pure love shared between a star and a boy once, many years ago ... Who is she? Whether there is one answer ...
