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Grace de Monaco

Original title: Grace of Monaco
  • 2014
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  • 1h 43m
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Nicole Kidman in Grace de Monaco (2014)
A snapshot of a year in the life of Grace Kelly as she strived to reconcile her past and her present, a yearning for a return to the big screen with her newfound role as a mother of two, monarch of a European principality and wife to Prince Ranier III.
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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... Read allThe 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.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.

  • Director
    • Olivier Dahan
  • Writer
    • Arash Amel
  • Stars
    • Nicole Kidman
    • Tim Roth
    • André Penvern
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    • Director
      • Olivier Dahan
    • Writer
      • Arash Amel
    • Stars
      • Nicole Kidman
      • Tim Roth
      • André Penvern
    • 107User reviews
    • 121Critic reviews
    • 21Metascore
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    • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
      • 1 win & 5 nominations total

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    Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman
    • Grace
    Tim Roth
    Tim Roth
    • Prince Rainier
    André Penvern
    André Penvern
    • Charles de Gaulle
    Frank Langella
    Frank Langella
    • Francis Tucker
    Paz Vega
    Paz Vega
    • Maria Callas
    Parker Posey
    Parker Posey
    • Madge
    Milo Ventimiglia
    Milo Ventimiglia
    • Rupert Allan
    Geraldine Somerville
    Geraldine Somerville
    • Princess Antoinette
    Nicholas Farrell
    Nicholas Farrell
    • Jean-Charles Rey
    Robert Lindsay
    Robert Lindsay
    • Aristotle Onassis
    Derek Jacobi
    Derek Jacobi
    • Count Fernando D'Aillieres
    • (as Sir Derek Jacobi)
    Jeanne Balibar
    Jeanne Balibar
    • Countess Baciochi
    Flora Nicholson
    Flora Nicholson
    • Phyllis
    Yves Jacques
    Yves Jacques
    • Mr. Delavenne
    Olivier Rabourdin
    Olivier Rabourdin
    • Emile Pelletier
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    • Hitchcock
    • (as Roger Ashton Griffiths)
    Jean Dell
    • Denard
    Philip Delancy
    • McNamara
    • Director
      • Olivier Dahan
    • Writer
      • Arash Amel
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    7petarmatic

    I liked it!

    I was really pleasantly surprised by this film. It was interesting and well played. I like Nicole Kidman and she really looked like a princess in this film.

    Story of Monaco was very interesting and this particular episode in life of the Principality was well described in the history and well portrayed in this film.

    In the movie theater where I watched this film 99 percent of the audience were women. I guess all of the dream to marry a Prince charming. Be careful what you wish for, you might get it! My ex got her and she ran for her life ;)
    3shawneofthedead

    There isn't much grace to be had in this formless, awkwardly-scripted and executed biopic.

    Biopics will always come with their fair share of controversy - doubts will inevitably be raised about whether the subject in question was well-served by the film and his or her characterisation therein. Even so, Grace Of Monaco arrives in cinemas dogged by an outsized share of debate and, well, debacle. The script has been openly decried by Princess Grace's children and the entire project overwhelmingly reviled by critics across the world. Distributor Harvey Weinstein reportedly riled French director Olivier Dahan by cooking up an alternative cut of the film. Of course, it's Dahan's version that has premiered in Cannes, to widespread critical derision, so one can't help wondering if Weinstein's cut might actually be better. That's a lot of weight and scandal for one film to bear, most of which is - unfortunately - borne out by the final product.

    It's possible to see why everyone involved might have been optimistic about the project. After all, the film purports to pick apart the fairy tale that is Grace Kelly's life - a legendary Hollywood actress finds and marries her real-life prince. In reality, Grace (Nicole Kidman) is struggling to find her place in the tiny principality of Monaco. As she contemplates returning to Hollywood to make another picture - Marnie - with Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), Grace's husband, Prince Rainier (Tim Roth), finds himself trapped in an increasingly tense face-off with French President Charles De Gaulle. Add in courtly intrigue, an identity crisis or two, a fairytale romance gone a little bit wrong - and it seems the perfect way for Dahan to make his Hollywood debut.

    However, much of the sensitivity demonstrated by Dahan in La Vie En Rose, his lovely, bittersweet biopic of Edith Piaf, has been lost in translation. Grace Of Monaco plays far too frequently at the full, high pitch of soapy melodrama, the converging story lines somehow managing to feel overwrought and inconsequential at the same time. Grace frets about her role as wife, mother and princess; Rainier broods moodily about the fate of Monaco; we're led to suspect that Grace's handmaiden Madge (Parker Posey) is a spy within her inner circle - huge, important events within the narrative of the film, but all of them are rendered in paper-thin characterisation and overly ponderous dialogue.

    As the film stumbles towards its unlikely climax, it becomes harder and harder to take it seriously. The unravelling threads of Grace's life are clumsily woven together by what amounts to Grace undergoing princess training at the hands of Sir Derek Jacobi's Count Fernando: a montage that would feel clumsy even if grafted into My Fair Lady or The Princess Diaries. Grace Of Monaco also runs afoul of a few odd directorial choices. It's no exaggeration to say that Dahan makes the most excessive use of the close-up since Tom Hooper in Les Miserables - in narrowing the frame to an almost unbearable degree, his camera practically assaults his actors' eyeballs on several occasions.

    To be fair to the cast, they try - particularly Kidman, who seems quite committed to giving as rounded a performance of the trapped princess as she can, whatever her director or screenwriter might have in store for her. Her efforts aren't enough to salvage the film but, at least, she's not adding to its many problems. Other reliably good actors chew over but fail to elevate the mediocre script: Roth's Rainier remains a frustratingly opaque character, while Frank Langella is quite wasted as Father Francis Tucker, a pastor whose strangely controlling relationship with Grace adds a few more wrinkles to the already oddly-constructed plot.

    In effect, Grace Of Monaco brings to mind that other mess of a princess biopic: Diana. Both films have impressive pedigrees, from director to headlining actress, and both seem to have completely failed to grasp - much less do justice to - their subject. In a pinch, Grace Of Monaco is the (slightly) better film: there are more complexities at play here that can be glimpsed amidst the shilly-shallying of the script. There is, at least, more of an attempt made to look beyond the princess' love story to find the person within. That's not saying much, however. For the most part, Grace Of Monaco is an awkward, frustrating watch - one that ultimately fails to establish its title character as either person or princess.
    4TheSquiss

    A dreary Sunday TV matinée that should be a grand biopic

    Oliver Dahan's biopic of Hollywood's darling, Grace Kelly, has been pretty much thumped by critics universally. Most would have you believe Grace of Monaco is an arduous, dull swamp of a film on a par with Oliver Hirschbiegel flop, Diana.

    It isn't. Not quite.

    Described as a fictional story based on true events, Grace of Monaco looks at Grace Kelly's (Nicole Kidman) struggle to maintain her own identity as her marriage to Monaco's Prince Rainier III (Tim Roth) bounces around the rocks while her husband's subjects reject her and his staff resent her. Add to that Charles De Gaulle's impending invasion and the principality's nosedive into economic ruin, and all was not happy in Grace's life. Allegedly.

    Grace of Monaco is a long way from Dahan's 2007 biopic triumph, La Vie en Rose. It is far too long, far too dull, with questionable 'truth' and rather too much melodrama. Dahan repeatedly cuts to lingering ECUs of Kidman's eyes, vainly hoping that soft focus shots of her regal visage will imbue his film with serenity and beauty. It doesn't. It merely serves to increase the boredom and slow the pace still further.

    No matter how good Kidman and Roth are, they cannot raise Grace of Monaco above the status of star Sunday afternoon matinée to the magnificent period piece it desperately wants to be. Both actors are pleasant to watch here with Grace's relationship with Frank Langella's Father Tucker a highlight that allows Kidman to scratch under the veneer of the princess. Likewise, Roth is more than adequate as the overbearing monarch who occasionally remembers to show he cares about his wife, but it lacks the truth of his sensitive and truthful performance in last year's fantastic Broken.

    When Roger Ashton Griffiths waddles onto the screen as Hitchcock aiming to seduce Grace Kelly back to Hollywood, the teeth begin to rattle as memories of Toby Jones pouring out the definitive depiction of Hitch in The Girl diminish anything that Ashton Grifiths can produce. Amongst the supporting cast Robert Lindsay, surprisingly cast as Aristotle Onassis, and Derek Jacobi as Count Fernando D'Aillieres engage the eye but there is a very odd collection of accents on display for a film set in an annex of France.

    The production design is eye-catching and detracts momentarily from the clunky dialogue, but it isn't sufficient compensation. Contrary to popular opinion, Grace of Monaco is not a turkey. It is merely overlong and dull. Approach with low expectations and you won't be disappointed.

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    7ksf-2

    a chapter no-one really knows about

    Nicole kidman is the delicious grace kelly, who made those awesome hitchcock films. As we know, she married the prince of monaco and whooshed off to be a glamerous princess. This tells the tale of an offer from hitch about making a film with him. But... just then, monaco and france are having a conflict over taxes; monaco does not tax new corporations, so many french companies are moving there, resulting in less tax income for france. This was one roadblock. At the same time, word has leaked out that the royal princess, mother to the royal heirs, may be part of a rough, violent hitchcock film back in the states. And there is political intrigue, where backroom deals are being made regarding the future of monaco that almost no-one knew about... can grace go make a movie in the united states with all this going on? History has already told us what happens... frank langella co-stars as tuck, her advisor. Tim roth as ranier. The trivia section tells us there are three different cuts of the film, so which version is shown appears to be the luck of the draw. Directed by olivier dahan. Written by arash amel. It's pretty well done, even if the royal family says there are in-accuracies.
    7rubenm

    Rainier, Alfred, Charles and Grace

    The one to blame for Tippi Hedren, and not Grace Kelly, starring in Hitchcock's 'Marnie' is really Charles De Gaulle. At least, that's what 'Grace of Monaco' suggests. It's probably not quite true, but the film doesn't pretend to be historically accurate. It says so at the beginning: it's a fictional drama, based on true events.

    The film shows a relatively small part of Kelly's remarkable life. After having been married for six years to Prince Rainier of Monaco, she is visited by Alfred Hitchcock who offers her the lead in his film project 'Marnie'. She wants to do it, but reviving her acting career turns out to be impossible because of a crisis in Monaco, caused by French president Charles De Gaulle's political manoeuvrings.

    We see Kelly as a somewhat naive Princess, who against her will becomes involved in political power-play. When a French diplomat suggests that Europe should become a third pillar of world power, next to the Soviet Union and the US, the American-born Kelly quips that this wouldn't be necessary if Europe wouldn't have invented communism and fascism. It's one of the best one-liners in the film.

    The story switches nicely from Rainier's political problems to Kelly's own personal doubts. She is not happy as a Princess, and has trouble with the rigid conventions of life at the palace. The film even suggests that her outspoken opinions help solving the problems with France in the end. This may not be historically correct, but it makes for a nice script.

    Much has been said about casting Nicole Kidman. I think there are very few actresses on the globe who would have done a better job. I'm not exactly a big fan of Kidman, but in this case she shows exactly the right mix of a strong will, a fearless non-conformist attitude and a superb elegance. She fits in perfectly with the cinematography, full of warm colours and lush images.

    I liked the way the script works towards an apotheosis: a speech by Kelly at a high-profile philanthropic event in Monaco. The speech is truly great; either it's very good script writing, or Kelly employed a very talented speech writer. It's the highlight of the film: Kidman delivers her text in a truly heartfelt way, with the camera extremely close, so only a part of her face is visible.

    The film has weak points. The dialogue sometimes feels clumsy and pompous, there are too many subplots and intrigues, and the director indulges a bit too much in the glamorous palace life. But at least this film doesn't make the mistake of cramming too much biographical information into a 100-minute movie. It's an enjoyable movie about one of the most interesting women in film history.

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    • Trivia
      In January 2013, more than a year before the release of this movie, Grace Kelly's children Prince Albert, Princess Caroline, and Princess Stephanie of Monaco, issued a joint statement saying they had no association with the production. The family added that this movie contains major historical inaccuracies, and that Director Olivier Dahan ignored their requests for changes.
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      On the map Russia's Baltic seaport is named "St. Petersburg." From 1924 to 1991, the city's name was "Leningrad."
    • Quotes

      Francis Tucker: [in a letter] Long after I'm gone, long after the House of Grenaldie has fallen, the world is going to remember your name, your Highness. You are the fairytale, the serenity to which we all aspire. And peace will come when you embrace the roles you have been destined to play: devoted mother, loyal wife, compassionate leader. Up against a task larger than yourself, you will overcome your fears. Those that preceded you will be forgotten. Those that follow you will be inspired by your strength and endurance. For no matter where you are in years to come, they will continue to whisper your name, the Princess Grace.

    • Alternate versions
      According to the Trivia section: There are three different versions of this movie: One cut from Director Olivier Dahan that premiered at Cannes in 2014, another cut by Writer and Producer Arash Amel at the behest of the North American distributor The Weinstein Company, and a third cut that was shown on Lifetime in May 2015.
    • Connections
      Featured in Film '72: Episode dated 5 March 2014 (2014)
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      Time Flows Like Tears
      by Fox

      Performed by Fox

      Drums: Vincent Taeger

      Acoustic Guitar and Bass: Ludovic Bruni

      Piano and Synths: Vincent Taurelle

      Additional Guitars: Philippe Almosnino

      Music Producer: Renaud Letang, assisted by Thomas Moulin

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    • Release date
      • May 14, 2014 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Switzerland
      • France
      • Italy
      • Belgium
      • United States
      • Luxembourg
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Grace of Monaco
    • Filming locations
      • Monaco
    • Production companies
      • Stone Angels
      • YRF Entertainment
      • Umedia
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    • Budget
      • $30,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $27,515,247
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 43m(103 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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