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Grace of Monaco

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Grace of Monaco

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Biopic of Grace Kelly, following her difficult transition from Hollywood star to European royalty after her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. As she struggles to adapt to her new role, she is drawn into a diplomatic conflict as the French government seeks to put an end to the principality's status as a tax haven. Starring Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella and Derek Jacobi

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A star rating of 1 out of 5.

Stella Papamichael

Nicole Kidman stars in this hopelessly flawed portrait of Hollywood legend Grace Kelly, set in the early days of her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Tim Roth delivers an archetypal study of the Napoleon complex as the governing head of the principality, and with supporting characters drawn in equally rough strokes (including Robert Lindsay's cigar-chomping Aristotle Onassis), it's left to Kidman to hold it together. Alas, she's two decades too old to pull off the youthful naivety that gets Grace into trouble in her new, formal surroundings. She looks stiff in all the wrong ways, a designer clothes horse in a glitzy pantomime, while director Olivier Dahan (La Vie en Rose) misses the finer points of the political crisis unfolding in the background, as France threatens invasion. Dahan pushes the theory that Grace smoothed things over with her good hostess skills, while Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) tries to lure her away with a script for Marnie. Dahan also looks to Hitch to try and inject some urgency into proceedings, especially at the culminating banquet, but it's all about as exciting as soggy cucumber sandwiches.

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rolenameGrace KellyNicole KidmanPrince Rainier IIITim RothFather Francis TuckerFrank LangellaMaria CallasPaz VegaMadge Tivey-FauconParker PoseyRupert AllanMilo VentimigliaCount Fernando D'AillieresDerek JacobiAristotle OnassisRobert LindsayPrincess AntoinetteGeraldine SomervilleJean-Charles ReyNicholas FarrellAlfred HitchcockRoger Ashton-Griffiths

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rolenameDirectorOlivier Dahan

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Theatrical distributor

Warner Bros

Released on

2014-06-06

Languages

English | Italian | French

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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