Movie Review: Grace of Monaco

Produced by Uday Chopra of YRF studios and Arash Amel, who is also the writer of this movie, Grace of Monaco shows the life of actress Kelly Grace after her marriage with Prince of Monaco, Rainer III. At that time there had been a dispute between France’s Charles De Gaulle and Prince Rainer III, at the very time she was also considering returning to Hollywood to star in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Marnie.

Grace Kelly’s (Nicole Kidman) married life with Prince Rainer III (Tim Roth)  was not a very pleasurable one, her husband is busy most of the time and due to the dispute between Monaco’s Rainer III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, the prince was already distressed. She realizes that the royal family of Monaco stress more on luxuries and politics than family and as a naïve, everything she says have consequences hence she is told to say nothing at all by the Prince. During the same time director Alfred Hitchcock also proposes her to return to Hollywood with his next movie Marnie. She at first refuses but later considers doing that film. 

Prince at first is supportive but the council members oppose her decision fearing that it may result in studio publicizing the movie in their name to which Grace’s publicist assures them that Alfred Hitchcock has agreed about not publicizing the film in their name. They agree and decide to keep it a secret for time being; however someone from the family leaks the news to the newspapers. Although Grace is eager but due to public outcry, tells Hitchcock that needs some time to decide whether she would do that movie or not.  She decides to investigate the matter herself.  Deciding not to be naïve anymore, Kelly starts to learn customs and traditions of being the princess of Monaco; she takes personal French tuitions and learns about the historical importance of Monaco. Grace Kelly finally rejects doing Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie. Later she suspects that countess is the traitor and spots her meeting a French detective. Much later Rainer and Grace learn that Rainer’s own sister is the traitor who had hired the French detective and the countess to handover Monaco to Charles Gaulle so that she can take over the thrown as princess. In the end, people of Monaco accept Grace Kelly as their Princess.

The movie only has the power of star cast, apart from this; I can’t find any reason to recommend it. The objective to show a particular scene in the movie had not been properly conveyed. Firstly I don’t understand why such a story has been adopted into a screenplay in the first place, I mean it’s not like Grace Kelly had a very extraordinary story or something. She was an actress and had difficulty in adjusting to the royal family, that’s it. The public outcry due to her return in movies gave her the need to behave like a princess. And at the same time the conflict and conspiracies happening which were not necessarily true because when the movie starts, it’s written that it is a fictional account of the life of Grace Kelly.

Overall, there’s no point watching this movie. If you have already seen this movie and have a different opinion then do let me know in comments. If you want to rate my review then go to this link