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.

Following his Edith Piaf film La Vie en Rose, director Olivier Dahan turns his attention to another 20th-century cultural icon. Playing Grace Kelly during her transition from Hollywood star to European princess, Nicole Kidman burnishes the staid traditions of the biopic with a welcome hint of camp.