It was just announced Olivier Dahan‘s Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, will open the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. The announcement comes one day after the film abandoned its March release date, a move many speculated as a continuation of a presumed feud between Weinstein Co. head honcho Harvey Weinstein and Dahan, with sources saying Dahan had yet to even deliver the film to Weinstein, this after the film was delayed from its 2013 release.
The film centers on Grace Kelly (Kidman), a former Oscar winner and mother of two, who’d already spent six years as the monarch of a European nation when the retired starlet was called upon to save Monaco from an escalating situation regarding its standing as a tax haven, with French leader Charles de Gaulle giving her husband, Monaco’s Prince Rainier III (Tim Roth), six months to reform its tax laws.
Grace of Monaco co-stars Frank Langella, Parker Posey and Derek Jacobi.
The 2014 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14-25.
