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My Week with Marilyn is a 2011 biographical drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Adrian Hodges. It stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper, Julia Ormond, Emma Watson, and Judi Dench. Based on two books by Colin Clark, it depicts the making of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl, which starred Marilyn Monroe (Williams) and Laurence Olivier (Branagh). The film…
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There seems to be a flood of "spotlight" biographical movies dealing with aspects of particularly the twentieth century in this new century (and millenium). It can both be seen as a way of tributing persons and events of that revolutionary century but also as bit of an admission that it is hard to find good new stories to tell. It tends to be on the safe side of storytelling and rarely gives any kind of new insight…More
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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…More
As a young man of twenty-three, Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) had the rare opportunity to work on a film with Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). The film is based on Clark's recollections of his time working on the set, published in his book The Prince, The Showgirl and Me. My Week With Marilyn is based on these memoirs, detailing the making of The Prince and the Showgirl and Clark's alleged affair with Marilyn…More