The Happy Prince

2018
12
1 Std. 45 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

6003

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Biography Drama

Die bislang unerzählte Geschichte der letzten Tage in der tragischen Zeit von Oscar Wilde, der sein Versagen mit ironischer Distanz beobachtet und die Schwierigkeiten, die sein Leben bedrück... Alles lesenDie bislang unerzählte Geschichte der letzten Tage in der tragischen Zeit von Oscar Wilde, der sein Versagen mit ironischer Distanz beobachtet und die Schwierigkeiten, die sein Leben bedrücken, mit Distanz und Humor betrachtet.Die bislang unerzählte Geschichte der letzten Tage in der tragischen Zeit von Oscar Wilde, der sein Versagen mit ironischer Distanz beobachtet und die Schwierigkeiten, die sein Leben bedrücken, mit Distanz und Humor betrachtet.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

6003

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 5 Gewinne & 15 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Director Rupert Everett had written promises from his friends Colin Firth and Emily Watson that they would participate in this movie if he ever got it made, and he would often half-jokingly remind them when he saw them. Even when Firth became famous and his busy schedule made it unsure if he would be able to keep his promise, Everett got funders aboard and people to participate by stating that Firth had already signed on. Near the end of production, when the movie ran out of budget, Firth even agreed to waive his salary, so he basically did the movie for free.

Patzer
Oscar is shown at Clapham Junction in prison garb with the number 33. He is on the way to Reading Gaol where he is assigned cell C33.

Zitate
Reggie Turner: [Holding up a framed picture of Queen Victoria] No exiled fairy's trousseau is complete without a signed portrait of the great widow herself. You must dance naked before it at the Jubilee next month.

Crazy Credits
During the end credits Oscar Wilde is heard and seen singing a French song in a cafe. Then there are flashbacks of audiences applauding his works in a theatre.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Cher/Christine Baranski/Rupert Everett/Natalie Dormer/Tom Odell (2018)

Soundtracks
La Petite Tonkinoise
Music by Vincent Scotto
Lyrics by Henri Christiné and Georges Villard
Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing
(1906)

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6/10

Sentimental, sad look at Wilde's later life

"The Happy Prince" is an interesting, sad look at the great poet and playwright Oscar Wilde at the end of his life, when he lived in poverty, declined health and social exile in France. The film seems like a labor of love for Rupert Everett, its star and director, but the finished product looks a bit low-budget and claustrophobic. The shaky camera work was distracting at times. Anyone who loves Wilde will appreciate this film's sensitive exploration of his inner thoughts and emotions, and how he suffered after his trial, incarceration and social exclusion for his sexual relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas at a time when sex between two men was illegal in England. Although Wilde is shown here living freely in France, he is separated from his two children and his career has been destroyed, so Everett delves into these painful aspects of the writer's later life, partially through dreamily lit flashbacks. "The Happy Prince" is a touching, rather slow film for Wilde fans, but I prefer Stephen Fry's crackling portrayal in Brian Gilbert's "Wilde" (1997), and that earlier film is better overall, perhaps due to superior direction and production quality.