Refreshing “Marilyn” film engages [MOVIE REVIEW]
Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis's film “My week with Marilyn.” Photo by Laurence Cendrowicz/ The Weinstein Company “My Week with Marilyn” is the beautifully told story of a short but significant period in the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Lawrence Olivier and, most particularly, Colin Clark. The film, by director Simon Curtis, is based on Clark’s Diaries, as adapted for the screen by Adrian Hodges. Clark, judged affectionately as the wastrel son of an accomplished academic family led by patriarch Sir Kenneth Clark – later to be internationally famous for his television series “Civilization” – is determined to make his way in films, a business that is strikingly unimpressed with his Eton and Oxford credentials. He is fortunate, however, to have family friends in high places. One of those friends was Lawrence Olivier, who helped secure him a position as a 3rd assistant director, a gofer by any other name, on his film “The Prince and the Showgirl.” Anticipation runs high as Olivier’s co-star is due to arrive shortly from the States – Marilyn Monroe, accompanied by new husband Arthur Miller. The Marilyn Monroe story has been told to death and it is a…
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