"My Week with Marilyn"

with Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh and Simon Curtis
in Movies, TV & Theater
on Thursday, November 24, 2011 * * * * *

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A look at "My Week with Marilyn" with director Simon Curtis, actors Michelle Williams & Kenneth Branagh

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    1. Gelles  12/06/2011 08:22 AM Report

      After watching My Week with Marilyn at the local multiplex I reminisced for hours the encounters of long ago. It was a movie about movies. But what I saw was mostly love. Young love. Real love. Love with wings in air that's kind. It was a movie made for color. The whites and reds were bright and the greens were everywhere as soft as they had to be.

    2. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/05/2011 02:55 AM Report

      Yes, the logical, critical brain can be turned off while singing and dancing.

      Dancing seems to be a key to happiness.

      Look at Denmark, Kristi Alley's weight loss, and prisoners in the Philippines.

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/05/2011 02:44 AM Report

      Michelle looks beautiful here!

      In this photo comparison with Marilyn you decide:

      http://www.eonline.com/photos/gallery.jsp?galleryUUID=1126

    4. beenthere2460  12/04/2011 09:18 PM Report

      I think Michelle Williams portrays a time in Marilyn Monroe's tragic life rather well, but the industry hasn't fully understood what her life really meant in terms of finding better roles for women for actresses to portray. So much of what is produced today is really not up to par with higher expectations because bad taste and financial gain are such a winning combination at mediocrity. The best work is through actors and directors who are truly thinking about delivering something of value. That movie is probably a good example of proving that point, even when the main character (Marilyn Monroe) wasn't someone of great talent, just great sex appeal.

    5. tabs  11/28/2011 06:21 PM Report

      Marilyn worked in a town full of sharks with an emotional foundation built upon sand. That usually winds up badly as the sharks wind up eating you alive. It was the innocence of Colin or lack of the sharks guile that allowed Marilyn to feel safe enough to be herself, thus the attraction. Mr Branagh's comment about Sir Laurence saying that you put up with being good 3/4 of the time for that 1/4 of being great was very insightful, but does not quite apply to Marilyn as she had to exercise her demons just to show up. Further Marilyn wanted very badly to be taken as being a person of substance instead of continuing to trade upon the allure of sex appeal which was the entree she had to trade upon to get through the door of the business (Tony Curtis comments)

    6. OLAN  11/28/2011 01:09 PM Report

      Everyone should go see this movie. Colin is family.