Grace of Monaco (2014): One of Cannes Fest (and Nicole Kidman’s) Worst Films

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Grace Kelly’s post-Hollywood life may not have been the fairy tale some thought it to be, but you wouldn’t know it from director Olivier Dahan’s cornball melodrama, which is nothing more than an exercise in banality.

The Nicole Kidman-starring biopic is widely considered to be one of the weakest starts in the entire history of Cannes Fest.

Indeed, the festival barely took off and then quickly came crashing down to earth on Wednesday with Grace of Monaco.

The supporting cast of Frank Langella, Parker Posey, Derek Jacobi, Paz Vega, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Milo Ventimiglia, and Tim Roth.

The dreadful Grace Kelly biopic earned boos and hisses from a rightfully irritated press at the morning screening.

Convention and uninspiring from first frame to last, Grace of Monaco is a piece of hagiographic fluff that cobbles together tropes from other recent biopics of famous women.

The film earned terrible reviews across the board, with many shrugging it off as a poorly-made Oscar bait.

Initially scheduled for release in November 2013, the film was then rescheduled for March 14, 2014, until being pulled from the release schedule indefinitely. After playing the 2014 Cannes Film Fest, out of competition, it was released to cinemas in some countries in 2014, but bypassed a theatrical release in the U.S.

Ultimately, Grace of Monaco debuted on the Lifetime cable network on May 25, 2015.

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