Un prince (2023): A Contemporary Gay Pastoral

Un prince (2023) begins with a plant uprooted, gently lifted from the soil. As the shot suggests, this is a story of relocation. It follows sixteen-year old Pierre-Joseph as he extricates himself from an unhappy home and embraces the pleasures of agricultural and sexual fellowship with two much older men in rural France. The director Pierre Creton, gardener and auteur, has given us a contemporary…