Review of The Happy Prince (2018) by Tricko2103 — 13 Aug 2020

I’m surprised at the somewhat lukewarm reviews here. I really like this film, particularly the grimy but beautiful look of it which evokes 19th century Europe so well you can almost smell it. It’s sentimental, sure, but I think it resonates well with the story of Wilde’s last years.

He was a sentimentalist, after all, as well as a narcissist, a satirist and a charmer, and all of these qualities are legible through the melancholia of the story. Beautiful performances, as others have noted.