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MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (2011) Movie Trailer: Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn 2011

My Week With Marilyn Trailer. Simon CurtisMy Week With Marilyn (2011) movie trailer stars Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, and Toby Jones. My Week With Marilyn‘s plot synopsis: “Colin Clark met Marilyn Monroe while working as a young assistant on Laurence Olivier’s “The Prince and the Showgirl.” When Marilyn experienced emotional difficulties during shooting, the 23-year-old third assistant director came to her aid and romance developed. But one week of honesty and fun was not enough to save the doomed star from self-destruction.”

I have been waiting to see footage of this for nothing more than the portrayal of Marilyn Monroe by Michelle Williams. Her performance in Shutter Island (reviewed here: Shutter Island (2010) Movie Review) was very good and I was wondering what she would concur. Would it be like the famous actresses brought back to life in The Aviator or something more. After this movie trailer, I would say its something more.

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There’s the other defense, too: that ‘Marilyn Monroe’ was a character played by Norma Jean, as that “should I be her?” line makes explicit. So can Michelle Williams play both Norma Jean and Marilyn?

This was probably the best line in the entire movie trailer because of the depth and implication of that question and what it said about Marilyn Monroe and Norma Jean. I hope this duality is explored in the film.

I’m also curious to see how the tone really plays. Framing this as a sort of romance thriller (“she’ll break yours!”) rather than a tale of the moment when one young man learned the true intersection of reality and fantasy seems like it might be a conceit of the trailer rather than the film.

I hope it is not a conceit of the trailer rather than the film. That would make a much better film than the standard romance thriller.

My Week With Marilyn also stars Dominic Cooper, Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Eddie Redmayne, Derek Jacobi, Jim Carter, Geraldine Somerville, Miranda Raison, and Zoë Wanamaker.

Watch the My Week With Marilyn movie trailer below and leave your thoughts on it. For more My Week With Marilyn photos, videos, and information, visit our My Week With Marilyn Page. My Week With Marilyn will be released in US theaters on November 4, 2011.

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Source: Rowthree, Slashfilm

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Rollo Tomasi

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, TV show, short film, Blu-ray, and 4K-Ultra reviews. His reviews are published in IMDb's External Reviews and in Google News. Previously you could find his work at Empire Movies, Blogcritics, and AltFilmGuide. Now you can find his work at FilmBook.
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