Oh, oh, oh. My cheeks are still blushing, my voice is yearning to be soft, whispery and to sing in a bathtub and my mind is still in the dreamlike atmosphere, somewhere between the magic of a movie set and the escape into the English countryside with the one who just may rescue you, at least for the day. Oh how many notes can this film hit? Since viewing the world premiere at the New York Film Festival just a few hours ago, I remain catapulted into a secret world of one of the greatest Hollywood stars of all times. "My Week with Marilyn" is narrated and shown through the eyes of the young Colin Clark, who is so hungry to be on a major movie set that he will do anything. His hunger, portrayed perfectly by Eddie Redmayne, is so palpable, it's in every look, in every movement, in every change as he unexpectedly becomes the closest confidante and source of escape and some kind of a confirmation, for the (sometimes) lost Marilyn. Let's get right to the most challenging and most magical element of this film: Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Many have tried to portray the Hollywood goddess. Many have failed, again and again. Williams melts into the role. Like honey on the screen. Angelic, luminous, ravishing. Lost and centered at the same time. Real and cinematic. Yearning for approval, from everyone, from anyone. Williams blends the multiple dimensions of Marilyn naturally - the public Marilyn, the movie star; the private Marilyn and the part she rehearses in front of us in the "The Princess and the Showgirl". And when she is most vulnerable, when the depth of of love from her newlywed husband, playwright Arthur Miller, is not as strong, as he leaves the set to be in New York, she seeks love and confirmation from the young Colin. "“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.", Marilyn needs dozes of confirmations, from the fans, from the love of her life, or a current love of her life, that she is not alone, as she once said: “I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent. ” On the movie set, with the sharp Kenneth Branagh in the role of Laurence Olivier on their summer of 1956 movie set of the "The Prince and the Showgirl" , Marilyn is insecure and requires ample preparation and many takes to achieve her perfection. Despite the many minutes or hours of her famous chronic tardiness on set, or takes, once she does it right, as they said, you cannot take your eyes off her. Based on a true story, yet transporting the viewer to dreams that we all can dream and that can just come true for one day or one week and then stay in your memories forever. Will be indulging further in the Curtis-induced film opium..."It's all make believe, isn't it?"
