A hilariously ham-handed attempt to dig beneath the Kelly mystique, only to find further foil-wrapped layers of mystique beneath. Well, maybe not mystique so much as a perfumed blankness.
Grace of Monaco
France, Switzerland, Belgium · 2014
Rated PG-13 · 1h 43m
Director Olivier Dahan
Starring Nicole Kidman, Milo Ventimiglia, Paz Vega, Tim Roth
Genre Drama, Romance
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Former Hollywood star Grace Kelly became an international icon when she married the Prince of Monaco, Rainier III. While their marriage and romance was greatly publicized, tension arose as French president Charles de Gaulle threatened to invade Monaco and claim tax revenue from it.
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What are critics saying?
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
Grace of Monaco could have been a camp delight, but it feels too much like a stodgy, outdated television movie to work even as kitsch.
By exploring a narrow scenario from one chapter of Kelly's life, Grace of Monaco plays like fragments of an uncompleted biopic that's been art directed within an inch of its life.
The film isn't just bad - it's awful - ineptly directed (Olivier Dahan), terribly written (Arash Amel) and bafflingly acted by an assortment of miscast faces.
The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton
Rarely competent, unintentionally hilarious and borderline reprehensible in both its politics and its take on gender roles.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It is a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk. The cringe-factor is ionospherically high.
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
You can sense what Dahan’s aiming at: by introducing the spectre of Hitch early on, he lays out Grace’s existence as a kind of lived-in Hitchcock thriller... But the acting is so heightened, and the script so thoroughly awful, that Dahan’s idea – his big and seemingly only one – can’t begin to stick.
Amel’s script is agonizingly airless and contrived
The Hollywood Reporter by Stephen Dalton
The real problem here is not the shameless blurring of fact and fiction, but how unforgivably dull it all seems.
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