Tag: Oscar Wilde
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“The Happy Prince”: Skips The Happy and Goes for the Gloom of Wilde
The Happy Prince is a fairy story about Oscar Wilde (Rupert Everett) in the last sad years of his life. Rupert Everett, both actor and director here, knows Oscar bait when he sees it, and the story of an exiled homosexual writer, bankrupt financially, emotionally and creatively, in the last miserable throws of succumbing to…