Thursday 28 February 2013

My Week with Marilyn (2011 Simon Curtis)

Original review 11 March 2012.

We certainly are getting some good scripts at the moment. Adrian Hodges is a TV writer having adapted The Ruby in the Smoke / Shadow in the North. This is a BBC film. We couldn't stop smiling. Michelle Williams and Kenneth Branagh were Oscar/BAFTA nominated. Eddie Redmayne plays Colin Clark on whose diary this was based. Judi Dench naturally steals every scene she's in.

Also: Julia Ormond, Pip Torrens, Emma Watson, Philip Jackson, Jim Carter.

Ph. Ben Smithard, Panavision. (Lots of TV: The Trip, Cranford etc.)

Conrad Pope's score is simple and good.

What's Olivier's great line at the end?


Today:

It's "I tried to change her but despite all my efforts she remained brilliant".

Simon Curtis is a TV director including Cranford, 20 000 Streets Under the Sky, Man and Boy.

Moves along wonderfully, propelled by script, without a wasted shot. If it's essentially a TV movie, let's have more of them.

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