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Anyone doubting the layered, nuanced, and heartbreaking acting abilities of Michelle Williams will see My Week with Marilyn a huge revelation. And Williams fans will appreciate it even more. During My Week with Marilyn Williams takes on the formidable challenge of playing Marilyn Monroe, and does so with depth and assuredness, and without relying on caricature. Williams's Marilyn commands the screen with pain and delicacy, and let it go before the final credits. My Week with Marilyn concentrates on a tiny time frame in Monroe's life, immediately after her marriage to Arthur Miller. Monroe, already "the world's most famous woman," still feels the requirement for validation as a possible actress. What better strategy to achieve that, she believes, than committing to costarring with Laurence Olivier in The Prince along with the Showgirl, a film she firmly believed would finally cement her reputation like a serious actress. My Week with Marilyn is situated for the short memoir of Colin Clark, a crew member on The Prince and the Showgirl, who quickly had become the confidant from the wildly insecure Monroe and watched a train wreck of egos--mostly Olivier's and Monroe's--collide in a very fiery near-disaster. Kenneth Branagh gives an uncharacteristically restrained performance as the exasperated Olivier, resentful with the "new blood" in Hollywood that this young Monroe represents, and disdainful of her cult-like devotion to Method acting. (And of Monroe's chronic tardiness, which threatens to undermine the veddy, veddy strict British work schedule.) Eddie Redmayne plays Clark using a sweet, gentle veneer, someone that grows to worry genuinely concerning the complex Monroe. Julia Ormond is clipped and proper as Olivier's then-wife, Vivien Leigh, and Emma Watson shows a beautiful gravitas as Lucy, Monroe's acting coach. But it's Williams who provides the revelatory performance, capturing with painful intensity the insecurity that starts to seep beyond Monroe being a fearful sweat. "Excuse my horrible face," she blurts out, while looking nothing less than her usual radiant self. Where performs this tragic insecurity come from? My Week with Marilyn doesn't attempt to answer the unanswerable, but alternatively shines a light on the very real woman who became lost in the giant shadow of legend. --A.T. Hurley

During Marilyn Monroe’s (Oscar® Nominee Michelle Williams) first visit to London to film “The Prince and the Showgirl,” with Sir Laurence Olivier (Oscar® Nominee Kenneth Branagh), she befriends Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an ambitious 23 year-old production assistant on the set. As their relationship progresses Colin’s focus shifts from making his way within the film business to rescuing her through the pressures of celebrity life. When Monroe’s new husband, playwright Arthur Miller, makes a brief vacation to Paris, Clark takes the opportunity to introduce her on the world outside of Hollywood fame. Based around the true story by Colin Clark, this memoir describes a magical week through which Monroe opens herself up to some stranger and finds in him a confidant with an ally.