Little to add to all the other reviews. Everett as Wilde, and all the cast around him, are uniformly fine, the sets and photography and music all work well too. The film is depressing because you know it is leading to a sad end - isn't all of life? Anyway, that said, though it holds few surprises, it is an honest attempt to show the downward spiral of a man partly exiled by a hypocritical society, and partly by his own contradictions (and self-destructive passion for a scorpion of a man). Perhaps a little less wallowing in the mud, and a little more time spent on the other characters, would have shed more light on what drove Wilde to betray himself and those who really loved him for a young male tramp.
Review of The Happy Prince
