A Prince (2023) review

In his younger years, Pierre-Joseph (Antoine Pirotte) develops a fascination with horticulture, goes to school to learn more about it and then becomes part of a throuple with his instructor Alberto (Vincent Barré) and nursery owner Adrien (Pierre Barray); as an older adult (here played by Creton), he continues working as a gardener for the wealthy and meets the "prince" of the title, Kutta (Shiman Dangi), who has a magical Medusa-esque phallus.  According to French Wikipedia (which may not be correct), Creton is a documentarian who's also worked as an agriculturalist, which shows with its absolute admiration for the natural world, but it's less successful as a "dramatic effort," with so much voice-over narration (by Mathieu Amalric, Grégory Gadebois and Françoise Lebrun) flooding the viewer with information it should have been a novella (or short story) and the on-screen characters are mostly non-verbal marionettes (the "death scenes," which pop up out of nowhere and are quickly cut away from, are a tad sillier than he probably intended).  It has its defenders (John Waters, Cahiers du Cinema), but it seems to me like vapid posturing ... although the mysterious last shot is nice and adds a supernatural dimension.