Review of The Little Prince Said

SPOILERS A divorced man (Richard Berry) learns that her daughter's got an incurable illness. They're leaving on the French and Italian roads and they tend to become closer themselves as if they wanted to escape from the terrible truth. Finally they arrive on their second home in the southern France where Berry's wife (Anémone) is there and she knew the truth about Violette before coming here.... The movie is very similar to "l'arbre de Noel", a film made by Terence Hill in 1969 but this one was very poor and flat whereas Vincent's film is beautiful and successful (it won the Louis Delluc's price in 1993 and it deserved it). In spite of the dramatical situation and the presence of death in the background, her film remains very gleeful: during their travel, the two main characters are alive , thrilled and the landscapes are magnificent and sunny, besides several pictures are beautiful. Pascal succeeds in alternating the comical and the dramatical scenes, these last ones are harrowing and touching like the sequence in the theater of Milan. Moreover, she avoids tears and it was what "l'arbre De Noel" wanted to produce. There is only one weird scene: the last sequence. Of course, it's an open end: what will Richard Berry do after he saw Violette falling asleep? I think that it was useful because if the director had filmed Violette's death, the film would have been a flop. To sum up: a light and beautiful film.