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Lionsgate+The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
The film’s fundamentally regressive when it comes to the gender politics of Grace’s arc. Her decision to give up her acting career to stay with a husband who married her partly out of convenience and never seems to particularly love her is…
“Grace of Monaco” is at its best when it foregrounds Kelly’s reactions to the forces surrounding her, from her husband’s reservations about her career to the Monaco public’s disdain. “Everything you say has consequences,” Rainier tells…
Grace of Monaco. Film. Wednesday 14 May 2014.Moreover, Grace's personal predicament plays out to a backdrop of a Monacan political crisis with France that feels less like a storm in a teacup and more like a brief shower in a thimble. Even…
