My Week With Marilyn is lovely.
Eddie Redmayne and Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn. Photo courtesy of The Weinstein Company as in “Wagi na naman si Harvey Weinstein, nanalo lahat ng manok niya.”
There is a type of movie comedy that we call the Babysitting An Overgrown Child category. In this kind of movie an entertainment industry newbie is assigned to look after an unbalanced celebrity, with hilarious and/or touching results. Earlier entries include My Favorite Year (Peter O’Toole as flamboyant boozehound movie actor) and Get Him to the Greek (Russell Brand as flamboyant rock star who was more interesting as a junkie). In Simon Curtis’s My Week With Marilyn, the celebrity is the spectacularly sexy, spectacularly famous and spectacularly insecure Marilyn Monroe. She is played by Michelle Williams, who is none of the above, but who makes up for the lack by being an extremely talented actress.
The full review (Playing Real People: Marilyn and Maggie) in our column in the Philippine Star on Sunday.
Summary: Watch It.
My Week With Marilyn is showing at Greenbelt, Glorietta and Trinoma.
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