Starring: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Watson
Director: Simon Curtis
Category: IIB
Since Michelle Williams and, to a lesser extent, Kenneth Branagh began scooping nominations and awards for their performances in My Week With Marilyn, the film has been considered to be an acting masterclass, as critics zero in on how accurate the pair's depictions of Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier are.
While both actors do deliver remarkable turns here, Simon Curtis' adaptation of filmmaker-writer Colin Clark's memoirs is much more than that, as it's as much a love song dedicated to the world of cinema as it is to one of its most enduring screen icons.
My Week with Marilyn revolves around the budding relationship of the young Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an English assistant director on the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl, that develops with Monroe (Williams) as the latter's husband, Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott, above with Williams) leaves the set and heads home to the US.
This is a story about Monroe as the little girl lost, as she struggles with the demands of being a screen siren and an actor.
That she does try to be respected as the latter as she's celebrated as the former is what drives the story and Williams' performance.