'In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), 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 (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott).

 

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. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.'

 

 

I was a bit cynical when I first saw the photos of Michelle as Marilyn but now that I've seen the trailer I'm really looking forward to it. Great cast too!

OMG I was going to start a thread on this earlier in the week but couldn't find a trailer (??)

 

Really wanna see this, looks good.

 

And OMG it's Angel Clare from the BBCs recent version of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'. SWOON.

Edited October 9, 201113 yr by Phaedrus Ráðúlfr

I CANT WAIT to see this film! :heart:

This film is out today, Anyone going?? Am going next week.:)

Take it no one as been haha, I went lastnight, I loved the film! Thought it was great. :)

To be honest it looks like a proper pointless biopic to me. Marilyn was loved! Marilyn was tragic! Marilyn was an icon! It doesn't seem like it has the ambition to tell us anything new about Marilyn or explore beyond the surface. Hopefully the Naomi Watts film will have a bit more about it.

I saw it, it's enjoyable fluff but there's no depth to it at all, it's either viewing her through a misty lens or some blunt moment spelling out how isolated she is. Michelle Williams is alright but she's not a star so she was never going to be able to manage it. (I do think she's an excellent actress - Blue Valentine! Meek's Cutoff! Wendy and Lucy! - but she's one for low-key, intimate roles. Which is why they chose her for what they're trying to do here I suppose.)

 

And minus points to Emma Watson's weave.

I've just read that the Naomi Watts biopic isn't even happening anymore. Boo.

And minus points to Emma Watson's weave.

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lztdp10SAg1qazkdco1_500.jpg

 

If a weave was ever worthy of a Razzie..