Grace of Monaco

2014 "The greatest role Grace Kelly would ever play."
5.7| 1h43m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 06 June 2014 Released
Producted By: Gaumont
Country: United States of America
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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 French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

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lemagicienbergier I quote comment under me"A fiasco that utterly lacks Grace. 1/10 Author: JLA-2 from United States 26 May 2015I can't believe so many people have given this movie any stars. It's both ridiculous and inept. So, where to begin?The idea that France would annex Monaco is treated with the world-shaking importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's a spat about taxes. Hardly earth-shaking. Another crisis is whether Grace will return to Hollywood, beckoned by Hitchcock, to star in "Marnie." That movie was also a mess with Tippi Hedren and is certainly on the bottom of the Hitchcock oeuvre, alongside "Topaz". It would have been no better with Grace Kelly. The script meanders about with one poorly conceived scene after the next. None, even vaguely plausible. Do you think that people went around calling Rainier "Ray" and Grace "Gracie"? I think not. ""The idea that France would annex Monaco is treated with the world-shaking importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis."So, Cuban missile crisis, a false-flag operation was somehow more important than a sovereignty of one European nation??? What about Kosovo then??? Autonomy for people that already have their own country??? Like autonomy for Hungarians in Slovakia, no?Whyt really was so "graceful" about some actress married to some prince??? She wasn't so good actress, at all...Nice movie.
tntconnect I hope Hollywood would stop using famous and well-known actors to embody famous actors whose lives they pay homage to. As a viewer, my perception becomes too skewed with trying to remember who the homage is for and how well the actor is performing. I would love to imagine the honored person's life being played out in the big screen, if Hollywood doesn't mind. In my opinion, a less known or unknown look-alike would do that. Nicole Kidman is a beautiful actor but I couldn't imagine nor remember Princess Grace. Also, Nicole Kidman does NOT have Grace Kelly's facial bone structure nor the look in her eyes that made Grace Kelly so famous and loved. Now Tim Roth who played the role of Prince Rainier was just frustrating. Disappointing.
PippinInOz Usually, when I watch a film, when it is clearly not my cup of tea, I switch off. The only reason this film gets a three out of ten rating is because, it truly is, mesmerizingly awful. You won't be able to look away, because: 1. There are some seriously good actors here, Tim Roth and Derek Jacobi, Geraldine Summerville, Robert Lyndsay and Nicole Kidman. So watching them all doing their best as it all goes from bad to worse is like watching a car crash. It must have looked so much more compelling in the script yes? 2. The half hearted attempt to make the film as a homage to films that Grace Kelly starred in. (See the nod and the wink when Nicole's Grace drives down the hill - 'To Catch a Thief') There is also the film stock used which is also reminiscent at particular moments of 1950s films. Also, the over wrought music score.3. By the final penultimate scene when the character 'Grace' (sorry, but it just seems so rude to refer to this creation as Grace Kelly) makes a frankly mawkish and very average speech......you will be dumbstruck.......clearly, we, as the audience, are being poked and nudged to 'feel' great emotion over this moment, as if 'Grace' is making a speech on a par with Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech! Oh dear oh dear.4. The entire narrative premise is dodgy - no matter how the script tries to hide it, this is basically a tale of a very wealthy principality, a tax haven no less, 'fighting the evil Republic' so they can maintain that position.It is one of those films where you know you are supposed to be cheer leading for the main character, but it all comes across - to me anyway - as extremely forced. Having watched a few documentaries over the years about Grace Kelly, she sounds like a complex, down to earth woman, not the wispy character we see here.Make your own mind up ladies and gentlemen, do give it a go, because as I say, it is mesmerizing, just not in the way the film makers hoped.
Christy Leskovar A fairy tale with Charles de Gaulle as the Big Bad Wolf. By 1962, France's war in Algeria was getting expensive. De Gaulle's solution was to bully Monaco into imposing income taxes and give that tax money to France. He was angry that French businesses were relocating to no-income-tax Monaco. The opening says inspired by real events. The part about the dispute between France and Monaco really happened; however, the war in Algeria ended before events in the movie culminated. Apparently the Grimaldis were unhappy about the movie. It's a Weinstein movie and was not released in theaters. I saw it on Netflix. Nicole Kidman plays Princess Grace. The movie is longer than the story, some scenes come off as contrived, but it's a nice story and a nice movie. Not many of those around these days.