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The Happy Prince [Sub: Eng]
His body ailing, Oscar Wilde lives in exile, surviving on the flamboyant irony and brilliant wit that defined him.

















5 February 1948, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

1977, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

1 January 1986, Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK



16 August 1934, London, England, UK



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June 27, 2018
Rupert Everett the writer-director isn't as impressive as Rupert Everett the actor.
January 22, 2018
As a final, permanent showcase for a role Everett was born to play, then, "The Happy Prince" does the job.
January 26, 2018
There's nothing happy here.
August 22, 2018
Everett the wit does not forget to deliver laughs along the way, even at the story's close.
October 03, 2018
For every haunting sequence in The Happy Prince, there's five that redundantly wallow in Wilde's misery, which is Everett's point, but it becomes wearisome.
October 04, 2018
Everett tips the movie over into ridiculousness when he starts making barely veiled allusions to Wilde as a Christ-like figure. I don't know if it's hilarious or unnerving to think that Everett must think of himself that way too.
June 13, 2018
As a director, Everett is sometimes heavy-handed, but the performances, and the undeniable injustice of Wilde's ordeal, make for a tragedy worthy of its drama-loving subject.
August 27, 2018
The thing that's most impressive is that it's well directed.
June 13, 2018
The Happy Prince proves that a film can be both bleak and warm-spirited, as befits its mighty subject.
January 22, 2018
He's a strikingly tragic creature, but "The Happy Prince" struggles to say much more about that conundrum, leaving one to contemplate the potential had [Oscar] Wilde emerged from retirement to fill in the blanks.
October 08, 2018
Everett shows little sense of how to structure his material, or how to shoot it, or even sometimes how to act it, but he does have one key element that sees him through: keen insight into Wilde's world and character. And this insight gets him pretty far.
October 05, 2018
The Happy Prince proves that Rupert Everett was born to tell the tumultuous story of a kindred spirit. Oscar Wilde would be proud.