From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   This movie was on Amazon Prime, which I'd never heard of. Nicole Kidman,   
   age 45 during production, plays Grace Kelly at age 33. She's been   
   married to Prince Rainier (Tim Roth) for some time. It's set in 1962 during   
   the manufactured crisis in which De Gaulle has threatened to invade for   
   tax revenues because the war in Algiers is a disaster.   
      
   Kidman is noticeably taller than Kelly was, at least 4 inches. She   
   really doesn't age despite marrying Tom Cruise.   
      
   The Grimaldi family and her three children were infuriated by the movie,   
   a deliberate historical anachronism like all Hollywood biopics.   
      
   I've read that the script was highly praised but I thought much of it   
   was weak, especially the beginning. It's sort of a blend of Rebecca and   
   the solution to the international crisis is straight out of The King and   
   I.   
      
   There are long scenes in which she's being given acting lessons to   
   effect the perfect demeanor and to precisely convey emotion, and   
   Hitchcock comes off like a sweet uncle rather than the man who terrified   
   Tippi Hedren making The Birds. Hollywood wanted to bring her back for   
   Marnie.   
      
   The movie has an ethereal quality letting us know this is Grace's   
   fantasy, and the colors are saturated immitating Technicolor movies in   
   the 1950s at the height of her career. I get what the director was   
   trying to achieve but I thought the unreality hurt the drama.   
      
   Financially, the movie was a disaster, held from release, then released   
   internationally in just a few countries and never getting distributed in   
   the United States. Yet another Harvey Weinstein story screwing over a   
   director as Weinstein's directors never had final cut. There are   
   supposed to be three edits of this movie; I don't know which one this   
   was. There was an edit for Lifetime where it premiered in the United   
   States in 2015 which the director hated.   
      
   I've never understood Weinstein's business strategy, in which he bought   
   foreign distribution rights and never distributed the foreign film in   
   the Unted States. I had no idea he pulled the same crap with a movie he   
   actuall produced.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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