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

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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