giorgiaori
A good movie from a great book. Favorite book of all times for many of us, The Little Prince has the capacity to absorb you in that world we all wish could still exist. The movie was great until... the end, it felt rushed. What happens with her test? Her school? Her future? Her mother relationship? Her father? Was him on that asteroid?Like... YOU CAN'T finish a movie like this. It was all about that one day and that one test and the you cut it out? In so many moments I thought "okay she now will know what to answer at that final test because/thanks to this experience". It was out of the blue. But overall a great/feel good movie :)
moonspinner55
A noble attempt to film French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's cult children's book "Le Petit Prince" as a musical; while it doesn't quite work overall, there are splendid scenes. An aviator crash-lands his plane in the Sahara desert, where he is visited by a Cockney child in royal garb who claims to be from a tiny planet in the galaxy. This Little Prince, in search of knowledge, in turn teaches the pilot, who has been robbed of his imagination. Director Stanley Donen is careful not to get too heavy with the pedagogical moments of insight, and he's aided by Christopher Challis' brilliant cinematography and a rich set design, but the song score (by Alan Jay Lerner, who also scripted, and Frederick Loewe) slows the pacing down. The editing is lax as well, allowing sequences such as the Prince's encounter with the Fox, played by Gene Wilder, to go on and on; a montage in a desert oasis (and the journey there by foot) is also interminable. The 'touching' sentiments in the film's final stages are forced, muffling the emotional impact, while the appealing look of the picture is never allowed to give the narrative its wings. This fantasy is grounded, quite literally. ** from ****
Fernando Torres
It's very difficult to make a movie based on a book, especially when the book is a masterpiece. I must say this movie does this perfectly well. It transmits you every value, emotion and message of Saint-Exupéry's book. I saw this movie when I was a child, and it moved me that time. But now, being 41 years old, it continues moving me and making me remember that every man is a child too, or should always be. The actors are great. Every scene catches the message of the original book. The role played by Gene Wilder (as the Fox) really touches. The music is superb! What else can one ask of a film? I give this movie more than 10 points!
tedg
Spoilers herein.Children's books are a literature like no other. In `regular' books, you nominally have the world of the reader, the writer/narrator and the characters. In the children's case, you add the extra dimension that the reader is not the person whose imagination is targeted.The `Little Prince' follows the lead of `Alice in Wonderland' in exploiting the relationships among these four worlds: and it does so by creating a fifth within the story. Its a sort of double story about a boy and a man who remembers himself as a boy: about each layer drawing the other: about surveying the forces that build the world, the two worlds.I'm an `Alice' guy myself and don't particularly like the `Prince' book. It's too patronizing and shallow for my tastes, but the FORM of the book is very sophisticated.Now along come thugs from the musical theater tradition. In trying to turn a flower into a gem they produce a turnip. That's because they completely misunderstand the necessary narrative layering that makes the book work.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
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