Caught in a cutting-room wrangle with Harvey Weinstein, Olivier Dahan’s take on Grace Kelly’s personal traumas amid the political struggles between Monaco and France is a bit of a mish-mash. Flitting between lush ’50s-movie pastiche, a simplistic TV-movie view of world politics and arthouse experimentation (there are long takes fixated on Nicole Kidman’s face), the film never lands on a satisfying tone. Whilst bearing little resemblance to Kelly, Kidman is okay — she has a nice rapport with Frank Langella’s priest — and Dahan occasionally finds his eye, but the film fails to deliver any dramatic punch or psychological insight. An opportunity squandered.
Grace Of Monaco Review
Arriving in Monaco and falling for dashing Prince Ranier (Roth), Grace Kelly (Kidman) soon discovers that life as a princess is not quite the fairy tale she'd imagined. Protocol forbids her to reunite with old mentor Alfred Hitchcock, while her husband is increasingly preoccupied by a bitter tax dispute with the principality's Gallic neighbours.
Release Date:
06 Jun 2014
Running Time:
103 minutes
Certificate:
PG
Original Title:
Grace Of Monaco
The toxic reaction in Cannes should offer fair warning: Weinstein's glossbuster is a bust.
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