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The Happy Prince

2018

Rupert Everett

Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson ...

5.7

966

Drama. Comedy It centers around the final three years of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900). Wilde (Rupert Everett), sequestered at a remote seaside hotel in France by faithful friends (Edwin Thomas and Colin Firth), is soon restlessly traversing Europe, beset by warring impulses: to reunite with his estranged wife (Emily Watson) or his former lover Sir Alfred "Bosie" Douglas (Colin Morgan).

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"As a final, permanent showcase for a role Everett was born to play, then, 'The Happy Prince' does the job (...) The writing is more literal than literary"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Everett's heartfelt performance rescues this otherwise bland depiction of a lonely man at the end of his life (...) 'The Happy Prince' suffers from murky lighting schemes and peculiar transitions"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"In the end, 'The Happy Prince' makes its strongest mark as a heartfelt salute to Wilde from an actor and filmmaker who was born to play him.(…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite Everett's command in the central performance and a script liberally sprinkled with amusing bons mots, 'The Happy Prince' generates only faltering dramatic momentum and a shortage of pathos"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This poignant dramatisation of Wilde’s final years in exile is a powerful parable of passion and redemption (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Everett is an exceptional Oscar Wilde (...) It’s his own tender screenplay, however, and a burnished combination of empathy and realism that makes the picture (...) a strongly cinematic statement"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Rupert Everett brings power and empathy to Oscar Wilde's gutter years (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"[A] moving and surprising biopic of Oscar Wilde (...) One of the most admirable aspects of 'The Happy Prince' is Everett’s refusal to provide a sanitised version of his subject"	POS
United Kingdom	Trevor Johnston Radio Times	"A flawed, yet worthwhile and deeply felt rendering of an artist at the very end of his tether (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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