Grace of Monaco will open the Cannes Film Festival Olivier Dahans biopic about the actress Grace Kelly became Princess of Monaco , will be screened on May 14 , compétition.Grace outside of Monaco , the biopic of French Olivier Dahan starring Nicole Kidman, will open the Cannes Festival in world first , the festival announced Friday . The film will be screened on May 14 in the official selection out of competition and released the same day in France and in many cities of the world , said the Festival in a statement. Last year it was The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann , starring Leonardo Di Caprio , who made the opening. Olivier Dahans film focuses on a moment in the life of the American actress Grace Kelly at the top of his fame when she married Prince Rainier III (Tim Roth) in 1956 , becoming Grace of Monaco . Six years later, while only assume his princely duties, Alfred Hitchcock asked him to return to Hollywood to star in his new film, Marnie . At the same time , the threat of tax France or Monaco to attach this small country which became the monarch , says festival.Produit by Pierre -Ange Le Pogam , Uday Chopra and Arash Amel , who also wrote the script, the film also sees its generic Frank Langella , Parker Posey, Jeanne Balibar , Sir Derek Jacobi and Paz Vega , who plays Maria Callas. The film was shot in Monaco itself, and in the south of France , in Paris , Ventimiglia , Ghent and Brussels. Born in 1967 , Olivier Dahan s La Vie en Rose director of (2007, La Vie en rose for the English title ) which won Marion Cotillard an Oscar for Best Actress in 2008.
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