Movie: "My Week with Marilyn" (2011)

[Bob Pr.]

"My Week with Marilyn" (2011) 99 min; R rated. Genre: Drama. Plot: Colin Clark, just graduated from college & in love with movie making, gets a job as a "gopher" on a movie set; Lawrence Olivier is the director, co-starring with Marilyn Monroe.
Stars: Michelle Williams (Marilyn), Kenneth Branagh (Olivier), Eddie Redmayne (Clark), & other stars in cameos. Based on 2 books by Colin Clark which describe this week (although many sources now say his version of his relation with Marilyn is pure fiction).
IMDb: 7.5 (of 10) stars My Week with Marilyn (2011) - IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes: rated "ripe" by 84% of critics My Week with Marilyn - Rotten Tomatoes
Roger Ebert: 3.5 (of 4) stars My Week with Marilyn :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
Trailer: My Week with Marilyn (2011) - IMDb

IMO, Michelle Williams does a superb job of portraying Monroe's beauty, vulnerabilities, fears, talents, mannerisms--her essence. (Many critics say she'll get an Oscar nomination for this role.) This narrates one week in filming the actual 1957 movie, "The Prince & the Showgirl," in which Olivier, a classically trained actor continually clashed with Monroe who aspired to be a great actress but was beset by a number of problems. This version shows Clark being the major factor in comforting Marilyn into finishing the movie. Whatever the actual truth, it's an interesting story.

My rating: 10 of 10.