My Week with Marilyn

Somehow, I can’t get over Marilyn’s behavior. I must admit that people really treated each other this way back then, but all of Marilyn’s good mood stemmed from drugs and everything else hinged on that. The film stands and falls by Marilyn, who was portrayed perfectly by Michelle Williams, but to be honest, I liked watching Emma Watson more. And that’s something considering she had a very secondary role in the movie. Even so, I must admit that it’s a proper piece of filmmaking, properly British. It has the typical British gallantry, which is nice and pleasant, but it can easily bore you to sleep. (04/13/2014)

I love Marilyn Monroe as a symbol of Hollywood, so I couldn't under any circumstances miss a film that explores a very interesting phase of her tumultuous life. The acting was amazing and convincing, especially Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh. The 1950s styling was very believable, as was the production design. All in all, a very well made film, but one that was still a little short of perfection. (03/29/2012)

An small and intimate film. There are a number of different ways to a biopic about this star, Simon Curtis chose a small small segment of her life, the shooting of one of the films where she played the lead role. The acting is excellent. Again, there are a number of ways to portray Marilyn Monroe, and they bet on her “innocence”, immediacy, and enveloped it in human idealism, and it’s a way you can look at it. I would call this film more a tribute and a positively tuned reminiscence rather than a captivating autobiographical drama about a torn personality. The pace, however, is excellent and overall it is toned down considerably, so that everyone can enjoy it. From costume lovers, dialog sequences, old-school design, acting, to gentle piano music. (12/25/2012)

It's been a long time since I've enjoyed an acting performance as much as I have here in the case of Michelle Williams. She may lack the sexy sparkle of the real Marilyn Monroe, but she has perfectly nailed her gestures, poses and acting mannerisms, and the many film awards she has won for it are well deserved. (03/06/2012)

There was very little missing and this film could have been a good drama about the destructive halos of stars and the circus, which makes people into actors even in the most ordinary of situations. Kenneth Branagh's monologues are good in places, the charge of the noble tragedy of the stage, which was once so beautifully exhaled by the great William. Michelle Williams is also excellent in the role of a lady with a blown skirt - she contains a piece of a sexy being who hypnotizes the world around her and the unstable and disgusting wreckage, which Iveta Bartošová would certainly understand. On the one hand, the film wants to show the other side of show business, whilst on the other hand, it delights nostalgically and impresses with the theater in its entirety. The two tendencies go against each other and shatter each other. The Artist managed to balance this double tension of the Golden Age syndrome in a playful way, which also includes an ironic insight, but the deserving classicist facade of Curtis' film is unable to do anything like that. It is heavy, full of unnecessary kitsch and visual phrases. In the places where the film starts to get good (because it goes beyond a sweaty melodrama and is about a boy from the crowd who touched a star), it always prepares a retreat down a sentimental path. It's such a magnificent promenade of British legends, wonderful performances and characters that have so much pathos and theatrical mannerism in them that you can't see their "other self", which they sometimes talk about in confusion... It’s too bad. (02/14/2012)