From MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

What we get, it's a subtle and heart felt genuine non sexual affair that reaches the borders of innocence. Sex is an idea not a fact outside the camera: sensuality is at every corner, but the notion of sexuality is an abstract submerged in an alluring and beautiful portrait.
Eddie redmayne plays Colin clark, the protagonist, whose perspective gives a fair amount of highlights during his employment in the production of the british film THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL; which is always the case of subjective stories to retell experiences that are seen through the own narrator's point of view. In most cases, those stories are always tainted or colored by the narrator's memories. We don't get the details or most intimate bits: the narrative at points seems to play in colin's own favor, and some parts are as credible as filling in the blanks of a quasi surreal nonfictional story. Nevertheless, the ambience of the film is inviting and relevant on every turn due to the amazing acting of Michelle Williams, redmayne, and a prominent supporting role by Judy dench.
My week with marilyn prevails as a coming of age experience. Its richness in characters adds color to a would be sad fairy tale. By any means, the film is far from being a sad/moody affair. It's in fact full of laughs and radiance. The characters are sympathetic and nonlinear.
It's always a joy to see the amazing one on one scenes between marilyn and colin that one only wishes that their one week affair could've turned diffrently in real life. There's a certain level of sadness that springs from the realisation of what comes next historically speaking for each character. The film wastes no time in telling us their outcomes, except from a couple of text descriptions, cause it emphasizes on what was hidden inside the pages of a young Colin's journal.
Michelle Williams gives shine to the character like no other could've had: her performance is astounding and simply mesmerizing in a way that flashes a spell on you and makes you relieve Marilyn again. Ebert suggests that the film is a homage to what Marilyn Monroe was and continues to signify: a devotion of a peculiar admiration for beauty, sensuality, sex appeal and innocence that altogether equal Marilyn Monroe, the icon.
If this is what Simon Curtis, director, was going for, then it remarkably triumphed. It's a story of a young man tackling his dreams that by chance meets and shares an unforgettable week with Ms Monroe. He shares with the public a glimpse of a juxtaposed woman that stole breaths away publicly as the most famous bombshell of the 1950s, and yet it yielded frailty and a charming child like innocence up close that only few were aware of.