The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced last week that My Week With Marilyn will premiere as the Centerpiece Gala selection, screening at Alice Tully Hall on Sunday, October 9 during the 49th New York Film Festival (September 30 – October 16).
“After seeing Marilyn Monroe so often portrayed in films as a caricature, it is a pleasure to see this complex personality and unique on-screen presence portrayed so well by such a talented actress as Michelle Williams,” said Richard Peña, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center.
The movie is based on Colin Clark’s diaries and is set in the early summer of 1956, “when a 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL. It was the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott).”
Clark’s diary account of The Prince, the Showgirl and Me was published, but one week was missing, “which was published some years later as My Week with Marilyn. This is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Clark to introduce Monroe to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe who was desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.”
More information about the fest and tickets available at Filmlinc.com.
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