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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 18 m

Summary Seventeen-year-old Ayoub has a lot on his plate: his father is a junkie, his mother is a lonely divorcé, and his sister is falling in with the wrong crowd. Haunted by his father's terrible reputation, Ayoub can't get the attention of Laura, the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood. He does, however, gain the attention of Kalpa, an ecc...

Directed By: Sam de Jong

Written By: Sam de Jong

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 18 m

Prince

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Seventeen-year-old Ayoub has a lot on his plate: his father is a junkie, his mother is a lonely divorcé, and his sister is falling in with the wrong crowd. Haunted by his father's terrible reputation, Ayoub can't get the attention of Laura, the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood. He does, however, gain the attention of Kalpa, an ecc...

Directed By: Sam de Jong

Written By: Sam de Jong

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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30% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
65
70% Positive
7 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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88
Aug 8, 2015
It revives hope for a pop-art cinema that's capable of treating characters like actual human beings rather than pawns on a chess board.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 14, 2015
A strong, creative addition to the crowded coming-of-age genre.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 10, 2015
Ultimately, Prince is unwilling to follow through on its darker impulses, while equally reluctant to go the whole nine yards in its lighter comedy register. Even so, its stylistic brio makes Prince enough of a live wire to bode well for de Jong’s future.
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70
Sep 10, 2015
A slender, morally simplified fable that makes up for its tonal and narrative imprecisions with considerable visual energy, musical pizzazz, and a panoply of colorful characters.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 11, 2015
Like a purple Lamborghini — or an adolescent boy's first, er, encounter — the film is too fast but almost unquestionably fun.
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50
Aug 13, 2015
At times tender and at others unflinchingly brutal, this small drama of innocence and temptation could have aimed much higher.
By Helen T. Verongos FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 12, 2015
The not-so-fresh Prince charts a familiar cautionary tale about the bad choices economically disadvantaged young men sometimes make early in life, but to its credit, it seldom feels hackneyed or cliched.
By Steve Davis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Halal Amsterdam, Vice Media
Release Date Aug 14, 2015
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.princethemovie.com/
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Awards

Nederlands Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Milan Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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