My Week with Marilyn

What made Marilyn Monroe a great star was her magic dust, like Tinkerbell's, that she would suddenly turn on in the middle of an otherwise awkward performance. Her seduction of the camera, and therefore the audience, is so subtle, complex and mystical as to defy effective description. This film, to its great credit, shows Marilyn's brokenness and then her genius, beautifully. I was so resistant to accepting Michelle Williams' performance, but she won me over, massively, in the end, as the film ripens and goes deep, with profound close ups, showing Marilyn as she may have been, must have been, at times, in private, at times deep as the Marianas Trench, at times effervescent and alive as the eternal girl looking for love that Marilyn always was. That Ms. Williams and the director could find and reproduce Marilyn's genius is a stunning cap to an otherwise enjoyable film, and worth every second. I may go back to sit it again... to be with timeless Marilyn, and a great new talent in Ms. Williams.

Excellent ensemble, beautiful music and stunning visual, yet there is something missing. One of the things that seemed completely unnecessary was the love story between Clark and the girl played by Emma Watson. As for Michelle Williams the magic of her transformation in Marilyn was broken with the singing scenes. As much as she managed to capture Marilyn's mannerism it did not function when she had to sang. All in all, a nice movie to see, but most likely you will forget it in matter of days.

My Week With Marylin was not an excelent movie. But Michelle Williams gives one of her best performance on screen as wonderful and poignant Monroe without imitating it.

Why does everybody love to hate Marilyn? See 'Some Like it Hot' and you'll appreciate that she has enormous talent right next to Jack Lemmon et al. But also notice the sad eyes. My Week doesn't give her nearly enough credit!

My overall reaction to this film is disappointment. It is filled with a wonderful cast of actors in a period piece that has the look of a very good **** in my view this film could not work without the actress playing Marilyn character working and Michelle Williams did not do it for me. I had been warned that her resemblance to Marylin was not very good so I was prepared for that, but she projected none of the aura and appeal of the real Marylin Monroe. She did project her voice and mannerisms at times but it was simply not enough. Without her strength to carry the film we are left with caricatures of the others notables portrayed and it becomes a self serving vehicle for Colin, the author, to let us in on his big moments with a sex bomb star he had fantasized with. The sequences are slow moving and boring, and the conflicts between the characters contrived and uninteresting. I am not sure any of the actors could have saved this turkey of a screenplay.