You can pass on this one unless you are a huge Marilyn fan. It is not a particularly good movie, though it is prettily shot. The costumes are decent, the editing is simple, and Judi Dench is great.
However. The two leads, Marilyn and Sir Laurence Olivier, are horribly miscast. Michelle Williams is a really good actress, but she misses this. From the voice to the facial expressions to the body (she is padded) and her body language, she is all wrong. My mom was most taken aback at the voice, and I was most disappointed in the body language. Michelle Williams missed both horribly.
Kenneth Branagh was laughable as Olivier. He played him like his Harry Potter character, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart, was a stage actor. It worked well in Harry Potter, but not here. I am astonished that these two are getting nominations at all; I will be far more astonished if either wins anything.
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