My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Marilyn Monroe	Michelle Williams	½
Colin Clark	Eddie Redmayne	½
Vivien Leigh	Julia Ormond
Sir Laurence Olivier	Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Clark	Pip Torrens
Lucy	Emma Watson
Lady Jane Clark	Geraldine Somerville
Hugh Perceval	Michael Kitchen
Jack Cardiff	Karl Moffatt
Cotes-Preedy	Simon Russell Beale
Arthur Jacobs	Toby Jones
Arthur Miller	Dougray Scott
Milton Greene	Dominic Cooper	½
Dame Sybil Thorndike	Judi Dench	½
Paula Strasberg	Zoë Wanamaker	½
Sir Owen Morshead	Derek Jacobi

Review

My Week with Marilyn is a superficially interesting account of Ms. Monroe's visit to England to film The Prince and the Showgirl, whereupon the film's director and male star Sir Laurence Olivier tried to make her orderly, and his third assistant, a young man called Colin Clark, shared a short week in her company, falling in love in the process. Monroe is played by Michelle Williams, who captures the doomed starlet's ambivalence and melancholy, but fails to add much depth to her mimicry performance. Clark is played by British newcomer Eddie Redmayne, looking like a young Warren Beatty minus quite a bit of confidence. Between them these two titular leads share some screen-time together towards the end of the film, but it all seems far too insignificant to make the film stand-out either as a tale of a young man left impacted by this acquaintance or as a novel light-shedder on Marilyn Monroe's life or persona. Incidentally, it was Kenneth Branagh's Sir Laurence Olivier which aroused my curiosity the most. My Week with Marilyn is an anecdote worth telling, but hardly worth remembering.