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‘A Prince’ Review: A Literate Gay French Drama That Remains Much Too Oblique in the End
'A Prince,' Pierre Creton’s dreamy experiment about the stories we tell others and ourselves, remains more interesting as concept than finished film.
Creton’s vision of unruly desires in the French countryside is literate and oblique perhaps to a fault, its erotic sensibility feeling more intellectual than visceral. As even that brief description of the cast ensemble of “A Prince” makes clear, Creton has chosen to fracture the trio of characters who, together, narrate this dreamlike tale. In the scenes where he interacts with his classmates, his aging parent and later with his employer, Pirotte plays the young man like a wallflower whose shyness feels somewhat crippling.
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