The Happy Prince (2018)
Country: GB/BEL/IT/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Rupert Everett
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas, Colin Morgan
Synopsis:
An evocation of the final years of Oscar Wilde, seen as an absinthe-fuelled reverie, or nightmare, and framed by a retelling of one of his favourite bedtime stories.
Review:
A triple triumph for its creator and chief performer, this unapologetically dark, and at times sordid, tribute to the uncowed spirit of one of literature's more cruelly treated celebrities is both grimly humorous and brutally honest. Having thrown away Wilde's dialogue in two fine screen adaptations of his plays, Everett is a master of delivery, and indeed performs much of the script in both French and Italian. He assembles around him an able and sympathetic supporting cast, and the production is attentive to the tiniest details of mise en scène. Vignettes such as the Bay of Naples and the pursuit through the streets of Deauville by a bunch of public school bullies speak to the range of tone in what might have seemed a bitter trawl through the depths.
Country: GB/BEL/IT/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Rupert Everett
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas, Colin Morgan
Synopsis:
An evocation of the final years of Oscar Wilde, seen as an absinthe-fuelled reverie, or nightmare, and framed by a retelling of one of his favourite bedtime stories.
Review:
A triple triumph for its creator and chief performer, this unapologetically dark, and at times sordid, tribute to the uncowed spirit of one of literature's more cruelly treated celebrities is both grimly humorous and brutally honest. Having thrown away Wilde's dialogue in two fine screen adaptations of his plays, Everett is a master of delivery, and indeed performs much of the script in both French and Italian. He assembles around him an able and sympathetic supporting cast, and the production is attentive to the tiniest details of mise en scène. Vignettes such as the Bay of Naples and the pursuit through the streets of Deauville by a bunch of public school bullies speak to the range of tone in what might have seemed a bitter trawl through the depths.
Country: GB/BEL/IT/GER
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Rupert Everett
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas, Colin Morgan
Synopsis:
An evocation of the final years of Oscar Wilde, seen as an absinthe-fuelled reverie, or nightmare, and framed by a retelling of one of his favourite bedtime stories.
Review:
A triple triumph for its creator and chief performer, this unapologetically dark, and at times sordid, tribute to the uncowed spirit of one of literature's more cruelly treated celebrities is both grimly humorous and brutally honest. Having thrown away Wilde's dialogue in two fine screen adaptations of his plays, Everett is a master of delivery, and indeed performs much of the script in both French and Italian. He assembles around him an able and sympathetic supporting cast, and the production is attentive to the tiniest details of mise en scène. Vignettes such as the Bay of Naples and the pursuit through the streets of Deauville by a bunch of public school bullies speak to the range of tone in what might have seemed a bitter trawl through the depths.