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There is no doubt that, whatever you think of her, Marylin Monroe had an often tragic life, as she grew up in foster homes , eventually had three failed marriages and finally committed suicide in 1962. The extent of her celebrity combined with her apparent unhappiness has led to millions around the world becoming fascinated with her story and in some case films have even been made about the film star- an example of such a film is My Week With Marylin.
The film is about an assistant director Colin Clark and the time he spent working on 'The Prince and the Showgirl'- more specifically, it is about the alleged affair that Clark had with the film's main star- Marylin Monroe.
I feel like this film is trying to paint a picture of Monroe's life, by depicting a week of it, and to a certain extent it does work well- Michelle Williams does a good job as the iconic movie star and they are able to cleverly work in several aspects of events that could have been very hard to include, an example being Monroe's relationship with her mother. But moments such as this do not really work unless you already know about the context of her life , lessening the overall emotional impact of most of the film.
Most of the other actors also do a decent job, but the weakest element of the film by far was Eddie Redmayne - I have seen him in two films thus far, Les Miserables and this film, and he seems to play the same character in both - the nice, polite young man, which here provides a good contrast to Marilyn's more outspoken personality, but can quickly become dull.
Finally, whilst the story is fairly compelling, it still feels like it was too short- it is quite entertaining, but if they had added on an extra half and hour , maybe even more, it could have been so much better, as they could have delved deeper into the fascinating life of Marilyn Monroe. However, they fail to do this, instead focussing on her romance with Colin Clark, and while it is interesting, as a whole the film seems weak, although it is mildly entertaining.
