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Young and inexperienced Jaime (Juan Carlos Maldonado) is sent to prison
- for murder out of jealousy as it later turns out - and rather
fortunately, he almost immediately attracts the attention of Potro
(Alfredo Castro), one of the prison's patriarchs, who of course makes
Jaime his bitch, but offers protection in return. Thing is, Jaime, who has
long been sexually ambiguous, really enjoys Potro's affections and the two
start to take interest in one another that goes beyond sex and ultimately
have feelings for one another. But of course, prison's not a good breeding
ground for genuine love, and soon their relationship faces challenges, be
it young Rucio (Lucas Balmaceda), who has made it his habit to flirt with
Jaime, or Che Pibe (Gastón Pauls), who challenges Potro's position as the
alpha male. And when Potro finds somebody has hanged his beloved cat, he
blows a fuse, and the resulting situation can only end in disaster ... The
Prince is a very unusual movie to say the very least, as it manages to
tell an actually very gentle love story on the roughest of terrains a
prison, and it really succeeds in making the film's underlying romance
palpable without sugarcoating things, but it also keeps things interesting
throughout, with tactics like feeding the audience with Jaime's backstory
only by the by. And a direction that really finds a good balance between
the gentleness and roughness of its story without ever leaning too much to
one side or the other, and a strong ensemble really help making this a
very compelling and unique movie that definitely deserves a watch.
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