Grace di Monaco
Regie:
Olivier DahanScenario:
Arash AmelCamera:
Eric GautierActeurs:
Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Milo Ventimiglia, Parker Posey, Paz Vega, Frank Langella, Derek Jacobi, Geraldine Somerville, Robert Lindsay, Nicholas Farrell (meer)Streaming (1)
Samenvattingen(1)
Grace Kelly was een actrice die mid jaren '50 haar grote doorbraak kende in Hollywood. Ze speelde in diverse films van Alfred Hitchcock en ontving in 1955 een Oscar voor Beste Actrice voor de film The Country Girl. Door haar huwelijk met Prins Reinier de derde gaf ze het acteren op en werd ze gekroond tot Prinses van Monaco. Een waar sprookje leek te zijn uitgekomen: ze ging een leven vol glamour, pracht en praal tegemoet. Maar tegelijkertijd raakte de stadstaat Monaco in een verhitte strijd met Frankrijk en Grace bewoog hemel en aarde om Monaco van een staatsgreep te redden. Op 13 september 1982 overleed Grace op 52-jarige leeftijd. Ze kreeg een beroerte tijdens het autorijden en verloor de controle over het stuur waardoor ze in een ravijn stortte. Haar schoonheid en levensverhaal zullen echter nooit vergeten worden. (Entertainment One Benelux)
(meer)Recensie (3)
A biography of a Hollywood legend, portrayed by a Hollywood star, with the ambitions of a TV adaption of a Harlequin
novel. Basically nothing about this movie is good. The usually excellent Nicole Kidman fails to impress, while the experienced
actors Frank Langella and Derek Jacobi have only meager roles, the handling of the political problem is not engaging and the
production, strangled by the film’s low budget, is only capable of offering the audience cheap, empty kitsch. As much as
the opening poetic scene of the film is nice and promising, the last one, following the failed portrayal of a dignified
conflict between kindness and power politics, is completely ludicrous.
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It's good to approach Grace of Monaco from the perspective of a Nicole Kidman film, because you'll enjoy it even more after that than if you were a die hard Grace Kelly fan. It's all very Nicole-centric which is perfectly fine, because if the point is Grace coming to terms with her new role in life, it's impossible to overlook the performer of this great transformation. I also appreciate Paz Vega in the role of Maria Callas, who herself is also the subject of her own biographies, and she easily shines alongside Nicole/Grace. Ironically, Grace of Monaco is not about Hollywood or Monaco, but is "just" another great story of a strong woman whose life story helped the modern age become truly modern.
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This is a movie where the creators themselves probably didn't really know what they wanted to tell, so they also included a bit of espionage, psychological drama, political drama, and human drama. Simply put, there is too much going on and nothing really works properly. And nothing against Nicole, but she simply isn't Grace. An empty movie that screams its message until it's no longer beautiful.
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