These are photos of Michelle Williams promoting Meek’s Cutoff at the Venice Film Festival. Ugh. Like a big bowl of cream of wheat. I guess the color is technically “pale grey” or “eggshell.” But it just looks like a big steaming pile of bland. And taken with Michelle’s short, platinum hair… this is just a horrible look. Michelle turns 30 years old in a few days. That’s a “3” and a “0” in case you thought she looked like a grandma in this dress. She seriously looks a little Meg Ryan-esque, and I mean that in the bad way, as in she looks like a fading star in her early fifties who is trying to cover up some botched plastic surgery. Michelle has a cute figure too – I don’t see why she felt the need to wear something so unflattering and old-ladyish. Not only that, but that dumb bow looks like she just tucked a tissue into her collar. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

As for the film, I actually thought that Michelle was promoting Blue Valentine, the romantic drama that Michelle did with her maybe-part-time-lover Ryan Gosling. Instead, she’s promoting this Meek’s Cutoff, which Variety describes as “a low-budget period Western with a bracing feminist spin. Re-creating a desolate stretch of the Oregon Trail with a meticulous sense of physical detail, this beautifully hand-crafted picture welds… subtle political concerns and eye for rugged American landscapes to a spare yet classically involving tale of a wayward wagon team.” Eh. You couldn’t pay me to watch it, but I can’t stand Westerns, nor Western-revisionist histories, so I’m not the target audience.

Speaking of Michelle’s part-time lover, Gosling was performing with his band Dead Man’s Bones over the weekend. I prefer him with some scruff – but he does look very cute in these photos:

Michelle in Venice on September 4 & 6, 2010. Credit: WENN. Gosling on Sept. 4, 2010. Credit: Fame.