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My Week With Marilyn (15)

Drama

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.

More information on this production is available at www.myweekwithmarilynmovie.com.

The critical consensus

At moments hilarious and others touching, it’s a sweet, slight affair, more pretty pageant than pithy biographical drama. Expect awards nominations to stack up for Williams and Branagh.

***(*)(*)Angie Errigo, Empire Online, 23/11/2011

It’s all terribly luvvy and hammier than a ham sandwich at times, but it’s sweet, funny and sad all the same.

****(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 24/11/2011

My Week With Marilyn is light fare: it doesn't pretend to offer any great insight, but it offers a great deal of pleasure and fun, and an unpretentious homage to a terrible British movie that somehow, behind the scenes, generated very tender almost-love story.

****(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 24/11/2011

Once the tingles wear off, little food for thought.

Jess Holland, Little White Lies, 24/11/2011

Williams is being touted for an Oscar for this, and she may well win one. But she’s done better work elsewhere, and so has everyone else.

***(*)(*)Robbie Collin, The Telegraph, 24/11/2011

A magical 100 minutes.

****(*)Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 25/11/2011

The character acting here is of a very high standard.

Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 25/11/2011

While the film pays lip service to the blonde bombshell’s fragile psyche, we never get close to psychological insight.

**(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 25/11/2011

Crisply directed by Simon Curtis, from a well-written screenplay brimming with one-liners by Adrian Hodges, this is a lively, beguiling and classy British production.

****(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 25/11/2011

There is a real feeling for British cinema in its moderately prosperous, constantly crisis-dogged, ever-aspiring days in the 1950s, the period detail seems right, Kenneth Branagh's Olivier is just this side of caricature, Judi Dench is a moving, gracious Sybil Thorndike; there's a celebrated thespian in virtually every role. Michelle Williams is sensationally good as the wilful, brilliantly gifted, deeply disturbed Monroe.

Philip French, The Observer, 27/11/2011

It's understandable that the screenplay should have attracted such a stellar cast. Adrian Hodges has written a terrific farce, with so many clashes between generations and cultures that Pinewood starts to resemble a dodgems track.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 27/11/2011

A treat for film buffs that’s sure to be a heavy-hitter this awards season, Marilyn could end up earning its subject the Oscar she never won during her too-short life.

****(*)Neil Smith, Total Film, 22/11/2011

Branagh is good value as the priggish Olivier, and though Williams does the best job possible of embodying Monroe, the film has no confidence in her ability to do so, surrounding her instead with characters who prattle on about how special she is rather than conveying that fact cinematically.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 09/12/2011


Features about My Week With Marilyn (15)

'I was desperate to do justice to an idol'

Sandro Monetti, Daily Express, 30/10/2011

Michelle Williams--At last, an actress brave enough to play Marilyn Monroe

Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 04/11/2011

My Week with Marilyn: the true story

David Gritten, The Telegraph, 05/11/2011

Michelle Williams: I was born to play Marilyn

Will Lawrence, The Telegraph, 10/11/2011

The magic of Marilyn Monroe

Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian, 15/11/2011

Film based on the glamourous life of Hollywood superstar Marilyn Monroe tipped for Oscar glory

Heather Greenway, Sunday Mail, 20/11/2011

My Week with Marilyn: fact or self-serving fiction?

Alex von Tunzelmann, The Guardian, 25/11/2011

My Week With Marilyn (15)

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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