CANNES, France, The Grace Kelly melodrama "Grace of Monaco" kicked off the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with classic French Riviera glamour, behind-the-scenes controversy and emphatic boos from critics.
The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a stiff, stagey, thunderingly earnest affair which has generated far more drama off screen than on." The film stars Nicole Kidman as Kelly during her marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco -- just an hour's drive down the coast from Cannes.
