The Happy Prince

Biography, Drama

In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back, transporting him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshiped him? The lover imprisoned and freed, yet still running towards ruin in the final chapter of his life?

Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and failed to save him from himself.

From Dieppe to Naples to Paris freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintances, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp.

The Happy Prince is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love in the last days of the nineteenth century.

Directed by: Rupert Everett
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas, Emily Watson
Produced by: Sébastien Delloye, Philipp Kreuzer, Jörg Schulze
Written by: Rupert Everett

Music by: Gabriel Yared
Cinematography: John Conroy
Edited by: Nicolas Gaster

Production company: Maze Pictures, Entre chiens et loups, Palomar
Distributed by: Lionsgate UK, Concorde Film, Beta Cinema, Sony Pictures Classics
Release date: 21 January 2018 (Sundance), 12 April 2018 (Italy), 15 June 2018 (United Kingdom)

Running time: 105 minutes
Country: Germany, Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom
Language: English, French, Italian

Cast

Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde
Colin Firth as Reggie Turner
Colin Morgan as Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas
Emily Watson as Constance Lloyd
Tom Wilkinson as Fr Dunne
Anna Chancellor as Mrs Arbuthnot
Edwin Thomas as Robbie Ross
Béatrice Dalle as Café Manager
Julian Wadham as Mr Arbuthnot
John Standing as Dr Tucker
André Penvern as Mr Dupoirier
Tom Colley as Maurice Gilbert
Stephen M. Gilbert as Paine
Alister Cameron as Mr Howard
Benjamin Voisin as Jean

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