‘The Happy Prince’ opens at Cinema Art Theater Nov. 16
Starting Friday, Nov. 16, The Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater will present “The Happy Prince,” a complex and deeply felt portrait of the final years of writer and world-class wit Oscar Wilde in the debut film by actor Rupert Everett.
In a cheap Parisian hotel room, Oscar Wilde lies on his deathbed and the past floods back, transporting him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshipped him? The lover imprisoned and freed, yet still running toward ruin in the final chapter of his life? Under the microscope of death, he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long-suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross, who tried and failed to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, freedom is elusive, and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintances, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories – his incomparable wit still sharp. “The Happy Prince” is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love in the last days of the 19th century.
Screening times are 3 and 6 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16; 3 and 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17; 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 18; 2 p.m., Monday, Nov. 19; 2 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 21; and 3 and 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 22. Admission is $8 for members and $11 for nonmembers. Customers are encouraged to purchase tickets online. If seats are available, tickets can be purchased at the theater starting 30 minutes prior to each screening.
For more information visit ww.rehobothfilm.com, or call 302-645-9095.
