Review of Grace of Monaco (2014) by Annie W — 10 Jun 2014

This movie has minor irritants such as anachronistic dialogue: they didn't say 'this isn't about x, it's about y', in the 50s, or 'colonialism is SO last century'. But the main problem is that a financial squabble between France and the millionaires' tax haven of Monaco is depicted as a grave moral and political crisis, with Grace and Rainier on the side of liberty and honour and De Gaulle and his ministers for greed and treachery.

Is this why the baddies all sound like Inspector Clouseau and the goodies talk like British toffs? The camera frequently visits Nicole Kidman's face up real close, which only goes to show a) that it's hard to evoke real distress and anxiety when your problems are of the first world kind and b) Nicole's off the botox but the surgery has left some deformity on the underside of her nose.