Here’s what the critics are saying about Nicole Kidman’s latest debacle, Grace of Monaco (hint: it ain’t pretty)
“Grace has certainly earned its place in the hall-of-fame for Cannes openers, but not in the way it presumably wanted to: even by the standards of recent Royal biopics W.E. and Diana, it’s something of a disaster: rarely competent, unintentionally hilarious and borderline reprehensible in both its politics and its take on gender roles. It’s unlikely to be forgotten in a hurry…” (via indiewire)
“Handsomely produced but as dramatically inert as star Nicole Kidman’s frigid cheek muscles, Dahan’s strained bid to recapture the critical and commercial success of his smash Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en rose is the sort of misbegotten venture no amount of clever re-editing could hope to improve.” (via variety)
“It is even possible to make a boring film out of this rich, juicy, gossipy material? It would seem so. Indeed, it is almost perversely impressive how Dahan misses almost every target and squanders almost every opportunity. Because Grace of Monaco is a stiff, stagey, thuddingly earnest affair which has generated far more drama off screen than on.” (via hollywoodreporter)
“The resulting film about this fantastically boring crisis is like a 104-minute Chanel ad, only without the subtlety and depth.” (via theguardian)
“It is a film so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk. The cringe-factor is ionospherically high.” (via Peter Bradshaw)
“Grace of Monaco will have its world premiere at the opening night of the 67th Cannes Festival this evening, although earlier it played to an audience of international critics, who even by the end of the first scene had started curling up, like startled armadillos, into tight little balls of embarrassment.” (via telegraph)
“Laughter was heard during a press screening on Wednesday morning.” (via bbc)
“It’s an easy watch, lush, stylish… and is often side-splittingly funny. The trouble is, it’s not actually meant to be a comedy.” (via Empire)
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