Kidman biopic ‘thoroughly awful’

Check out the first official trailer for 'Grace of Monaco', starring Nicole Kidman as the enigmatic movie star-turned-princess, Grace Kelly.

'Thuddingly earnest' ... Tim Roth as Prince Rainier and Nicole Kidman as Grace, Princess of Monaco. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

THINGS have not started well for Nicole Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival. She's already had to contend with much conjecture over what "work" has gone into her apparently "puffy" face.

Now, though, how puffy her face is seems the very least of her problems. The first reviews for Kidman's Grace of Monaco, which opens the festival, are in. And they haven't been kind.

Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian said that the "film is so awe-inspiringly wooden that it is basically a fire-risk".

'Terrifically talented' ... Nicole Kidman's acting received some accolades in an otherwise 'fantastically silly melodrama'. Picture: Loic Venance Source: AFP

Of Kidman's performance as the former Grace Kelly-turned-Princess, Bradshaw writes that the Aussie spends her time "wafting around the Palace with dewy-eyed features and slightly parted lips which make her look like a grown-up Bambi after a couple of cocktails, suddenly remembering his mother's violent death in the forest". Ouch.

The London Telegraph gave the flick one star, calling the film a "fantastically silly melodrama", and the script "thoroughly awful". Calling Kidman a "terrifically talented actress", The Telegraph said, "this is a role built on naivety: one of the few things she can't convincingly express".

The Hollywood Reporter agreed , branding the film "dull". "It's a stiff, stagey, thuddingly earnest affair, which has generated far more drama off screen than on", the magazine wrote, adding that it is "middlebrow mush" that descends into "soapie banality".

'A good physical match' ... Nicole Kidman in a scene from 'Grace of Monaco'. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

The Hollywood Reporter did, however, give Kidman some props, stating that she's "a good physical match for Kelly, and brings an intensity that elevates even a shallow script with shades of emotional complexity".

In one glimmer of hope for the film, The Independent deemed that Kidman's "star" performance and production design saves the film, adding that the Aussie "excels in a role in which she is called on to project glamour and suffering in equal measure - and is never allowed to be seen in the same outfit twice".

Still, the current Monegasque royals haven't been too impressed, with Princess Caroline calling the film a "farce" and cancelling their annual attendance at this year's event.

Diabolical ... Naomi Watts in a scene from the film 'Diana'. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

Last year, another royal biopic, the absolutely diabolical Diana (starring former Kidman BFF Naomi Watts) opened the festival to monumentally disastrous reviews (comparing the two, the Telegraph wrote "these are thin times for fans of Australian actresses playing European royalty"). Film pundits declared it couldn't get much worse. Until now.

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