The Childhood of a Leader (2015) review

Petulant little Prescott (Tom Sweet), whose father (Liam Cunningham) works for U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, his mercurial German mother (Bérénice Bejo) is trying to raise him and his tutor Ada (Stacy Martin) is hired to teach him French, has a series of "temper tantrums" while living with them in France - he throws rocks at people, runs around naked, refuses to eat his dinner, grabs boobs, etc. - and supposedly this type of "privileged" upbringing leads to him becoming, as an adult (played by Robert Pattinson), a dictator.  Former actor Corbet (in his directorial debut) as well as his co-screenwriter Mona Fastvold deserve some credit for at least attempting to adapt a novella by Jean-Paul Sartre to the screen - which is not the easiest task - except in terms of "character analysis" it's sub-Psych 101 kind of stuff: they never really delve into the child's thought process (or that of his family), and his antics aren't atypical for a kid his age with no peers to play with.  It's filmed like an uptight period piece, and only Scott Walker's jarring score gives even the slightest hint that the fussy bedwetter would morph into Stalin.