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Michelle Williams and “My Week With Marilyn”

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Mandy21:
I finally got around to watching this last night on DVD.  I thought it was a good-enough film, and that Michelle did a fine job of trying to capture a rather uncaptureable and elusive personality from the glory days of Hollywood.    I suppose it's the kind of film that you just have to accept for what it is -- in this case, 95 minutes of mostly fluff -- rather than hoping it will delve deeper in many of the scenes.  I found myself wishing Michelle had more lines to work with, more emotions to face, more tears to shed, etc.

Does anyone know what her feelings were about doing the GQ promotional layout?  Those kinds of blatant, forced sexuality don't seem to mesh in any way with the Michelle we think we know from reading her words in interviews over the years, do they?  The expression on her face seems not sexy or mysterious or Marilyn-like, but rather unenthusiastic and unwilling as Michelle the person.  Does anyone else get that impression?

As always, with all of the Michelle movies I see, at the end there are the inevitable and forever questions lingering in my mind:  What would Heath have thought of her performance?  Would he have picked up the phone to give his thoughts to her?  Would he have been sitting next to her at the premiere?  Would he have been lying next to her in bed watching it again on cable some night, perhaps with Matilda snuggled between them?  Would their careers have soared in tandem?  And all I'm left with is silence.

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