That way his life will depend on your justice. From time to time you will condemn him to death. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary: I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. All ages., Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. The adept performances capture the timeless nature of Saint-Exup'ry's fable about how a child sees the important things in life much more clearly than many adults do. Gere expresses just the right mix of amusement and bewilderment as the prince interrupts the pilot's efforts to repair his plane with a request that he draw a sheep.
As the pilot whose plane has crashed in the Sahara, Gere plays it low-key, creating a perfect partner for Osment's interplanetary-traveling, wise-beyond-his-years prince. He approaches the role with a gentleness and sensitivity that touches the heart and never sounds maudlin. Young Osment (The Sixth Sense Pay It Forward) again proves his mettle as an actor, giving voice to the Little Prince in this crisp, full-cast production of the literary classic.
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