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I was hoping this movie would come through for me, and it did. A very solid production.
Florid but warmhearted — much like the man at its center — The Happy Prince is a haunting portrait of the aftermath of betrayal; of how the master of comedy became a tragedy.
The cast is solid; Everett’s acting in particular is deep, indelible and award-worthy. We smell Oscar, one might say.
A sense of injustice runs like a toxic river through Everett’s film, an affront to homophobia through the ages, even our enlightened one. 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.