Synopsis
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
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Cast
- Nicole KidmanGrace Kelly
- Milo VentimigliaRupert Allan
- Paz VegaMaria Callas
- Tim RothPrince Rainier III
- Parker PoseyMadge Tivey-Faucon
- Frank LangellaFather Francis Tucker
- Derek JacobiCount Fernando D'Aillieres
- Geraldine SomervillePrincess Antoinette
- Roger Ashton-GriffithsAlfred Hitchcock
- Nicholas FarrellJean-Charles Rey
Recommendations
- 67
IndieWire
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. - 40
Empire
The toxic reaction in Cannes should offer fair warning: Weinstein's glossbuster is a bust. - 40
Time Out London
Grace of Monaco could have been a camp delight, but it feels too much like a stodgy, outdated television movie to work even as kitsch. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
The real problem here is not the shameless blurring of fact and fiction, but how unforgivably dull it all seems. - 20
CineVue
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. - 20
The Guardian
It is a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk. The cringe-factor is ionospherically high. - 20
The Telegraph
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. - 20
Variety
Amel’s script is agonizingly airless and contrived
