La Ville dont le prince est un enfant (1997)
- Directed by
- Christophe Malavoy
- Genre
- drama film, LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 19 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
At a Catholic boarding school in 1930s France, a priest becomes obsessed with controlling two students whose friendship he views as improper. The story revolves around his manipulative efforts to separate them, driven by his own repressed emotions.
restrainedcerebralmelancholicintimatetensedatedatmosphericslow-burn
What happens
La Ville dont le prince est un enfant is a 1997 made-for-television film adapted from a 1951 play by French dramatist Henry de Montherlant of the same title. The title, literally translated, The City Where the Prince is a Child, is taken from Ecclesiastes 10:16: "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!" The French-language film was subsequently released in North American markets on DVD in 2004 under the title, The Fire That Burns, similar to the 1977 English language translation of the play produced in 1977 under the title, The Fire that Consumes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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