The Sedona
International Film Festival is proud to partner with Old Town Center for the
Arts to bring movies to Cottonwood!
“Monday Movies on Main”
continues on Monday, Nov. 13 with the Cottonwood premiere of “The Happy Prince”
at 7 p.m. at Old Town Center for the Arts.
“The Happy Prince” —
written and directed by Rupert Everett — features an award-winning all-star
cast, including Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas and
Colin Morgan.
In a cheap Parisian
hotel room, Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed 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 worshiped him? The lover
imprisoned and freed, yet still running towards 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 nineteenth century.
“As Oscar Wilde, Rupert
Everett lifts ‘The Happy Prince’ into the stratosphere.” — David Edelstein, New
York Magazine
“Rupert Everett soars:
He is utterly fantastic.” — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
“Rupert Everett is in
top form. Dreaming, inventive and beautifully crafted. He channels Wilde’s
literary bearing, clever wit and absinthe-tinged wooziness with poignancy and
pathos.” — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
“The role Rupert
Everett was born to play.” — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Old Town Center for the Arts is located at 633 N. 5th Street (just off Main) in Cottonwood.