DIFF FILMS

FOR THE YEAR 2011

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

U.S.A. / 2011 / English dialogue with Arabic subtitles / Colour / 35 mm / 99 mins

Genre: Biography

Cast & Credits

Director: Simon Curtis
Producer: David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein
Scriptwriter: Adrian Hodges
Cinematographer: Ben Smithard
Editor: Adam Recht
Composer: Conrad Pope
Cast (in alphabetical order): Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Williams

Synopsis

Early in the summer of 1956, American film star Marilyn Monroe set foot on British soil for the first time. On honeymoon with her husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller, Monroe came to England to shoot "The Prince and the Showgirl" – the film that famously united her with Sir Laurence Olivier, the British theatre and film legend who directed and co-starred in the film. That same summer, 23-year-old Colin Clark set foot on a film set for the first time in his life. Newly graduated from Oxford, aspiring filmmaker Clark found a job as a lowly production hand on this very film. Forty years later, he recounted his experiences of the six-month shoot in a diary-style memoir entitled "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me". But one week in Clark’s account was missing and it wasn’t until years later that Clark revealed why. In his follow-up memoir "My Week with Marilyn". he recounts the true story of one magical week he spent alone with the world’s biggest star. By turns comic and poignant, "My Week with Marilyn" offers an uncommonly intimate look at the Hollywood icon, charting the brief, charged connection she forged with a young man who came to understand her better than anyone.

Contains: 12+