Nicole Kidman Grace Of Monaco

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, Frank Langella, Paz Vega
Director: Olivier Dahan
Genre: Drama
Rated: PG
Running Time: 103 minutes

Synopsis: At the peak of stardom, Grace Kelly left a successful career as a Hollywood actress to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. Six years later, faced with a crisis that threatened Monaco and her marriage, famed director Alfred Hitchcock offers her the chance to return to Hollywood for the starring role in his next film 'Marnie". Grace is at a crossroad: choose the life she thought she always wanted, or embrace the role of the woman she has now become: Her Serene Highness, The Princess of Monaco.

Grace Of Monaco
Release Date: June 5th, 2014

About The Story

Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated 'Wedding of the Century", Grace Of Monaco is an intimate snapshot of a year in the life of the twentieth century's most Iconic Princess, Grace Kelly, as she strives to reconcile her past and her present - a yearning for a return to the big screen and her newfound role as mother of two, monarch of a European principality and wife to Prince Rainier III.

While contemplating overtures from Alfred Hitchcock to return to her career in Hollywood, Grace finds herself plunged into a personal crisis when Rainier's modernization of an ailing Monaco is halted by France's President, Charles de Gaulle, who threatens to impose French taxation on Monaco and reclaim the principality by force.

A full-blown international crisis and impending invasion by France presents a crisis not only for her family, her marriage and her country, but in Grace's private life. It will become the moment in which a cinematic icon, an American far from home, will have to face a tough decision: return to her celebrated status as a movie star globally loved and adored; or embrace her new role and identity, her duty to her husband, her children and the world's second smallest principality that has now become her home.

Grace of Monaco is a real‐life fairytale, a sweeping romance, a portrait of the cinematic legend of Princess Grace and the realisation that love is rooted in more than just passion. Love is an obligation.

Director's Statement

Grace of Monaco is a romantic and historical saga that tells the story of Grace Kelly, a major Hollywood star, and her rise to the greatest role ever: that of Princess of Monaco. The history of the Principality of Monaco is a particularly rich one and has always been surrounded by an aura of glamour.

Relations between France and the Rock of Monaco haven't always been smooth sailing, but what interests us in this film is how this new arrival from the Hollywood glitterati will influence and leave her mark on Franco-Monegasque relations. A 'clash of cultures" of sorts.

The public has a real appetite, coupled with a certain fascination, with stories of princesses and royal families. The media craze surrounding royal weddings are the best evidence of this. But here, we observe this royal family through the prism of historical destiny and the huge obligations they undertake, and we come to an understanding of how the challenges of a short passage in history allows each character to grow, in particular, Princess Grace of Monaco.

As a director, I know that Grace of Monaco lies at the crossroads of themes that are dear to me, such as the weight of history on beings, the aura cast by certain women on their times and the wonder created by personal epics such as Grace Kelly and Edith Piaf.

I would like to film a reality transposed which, little by little, reveals all the detail not only through the camerawork and decors, but in the narrative chronology so that the viewer gradually comes to under-stand through the eyes of Grace the stakes of the era and the events through which she lives.

The cinematography that I have sought with my chief director of photography, Eric Gautier, is that of the American cinema of the 1960's, from directors such as Alfred Hitchcock; a detailed but sober and elegant cinema to accompany the progress of one of the major figures of the second half of the 20th century to her assumed status of Her Serene Highness the Princess of Monaco."  

 

Grace Of Monaco
Release Date: June 5th, 2014