Critics reviews

Where A Prince thrives is in its lush cinematography, inviting the audience into cozy, well-worn interiors and verdant, rich landscapes. The film is entrancing, thanks to its earthy imagery and elegant score, and perhaps in part to the droning, intertwining voiceovers.

Every frame in A Prince is exquisitely planned and shot, but it demands too much of viewers, its meaning proving too elusive. A director may successfully employ nontraditional narration that makes it difficult to identify the characters, scant dialogue, or unexpected bursts of surrealism. He must be truly ballsy to attempt the three simultaneously.

Fresh, personal and radical... [A Prince] privileges texture and uniquely cinematic beauty over story... Creton trusts his filmmaking instincts enough to not force the proceedings in any particular direction, resulting in a relaxed surrealism that is a genuine pleasure to watch unfold.

Un prince is a masterful film, carefully constructed by a director whose intentions were almost as daring as his method of telling this story... The film is engaging and extremely captivating, and its cold, aloof style is contrasted with a passionate, pulsating depiction of sexuality.

A Prince, while often pleasurable, presents significant challenges for the viewer. At times it is difficult to even be sure who is speaking, since image and sound exist in separate realms. This means that certain aspects of these characters and even their basic narrative trajectories often remain opaque... It’s a theoretically compelling approach, but at times it’s hard not to feel like A Prince is all plant, no payoff.

[A Prince] is a film with a distinct, quiet voice, one that gently invites its audience into a rural world that is so far from the mainstream that it feels like another planet.

At times very confronting and underpinned by static shots cut through with rough humanity (broken up by a handful of breath-taking frames), the film speaks volumes, in fragmented fashion, about a kind of humanity where muted violence abounds and where physical love and manual labour act as medicinal plants and lucky charms.