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In 1956 England, Colin Clark lands a job as a production assistant on the set of 'The Prince and the Showgirl,' starring Marilyn Monroe and documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of the show.
That's all familiar lore but, to his credit, director Simon Curtis lays out these separate ambitions and conflicting tensions with breezy dispatch in the early frames.
Curtis occasionally takes his characters out of Pinewood, but they're never really set free, either in physical or emotional terms.
November 25, 2011
Truthdig
It would be easy to overpraise this very slight little picture. But its heart is in the right place. Marilyn was now and then, here and there, kind of fun to be with.
[Williams] floats through the movie, perfectly capturing Monroe's way of rhythmically whispering through a song, looking softly frightened when uncertain, and not strolling so much as delicately oozing across the floor.
November 25, 2011
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Williams is a more three-dimensional Monroe than the love goddess herself. The performance is both an eerie imitation and a touching revelation.