Peau d'Âne (1970)

Original title

Peau d'âne

Directed by

Jacques Demy

Genre

fantasy film, musical film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

0

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 552 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A queen's dying wish leads her kingly husband to promise he will only marry a woman as beautiful as she was. That woman turns out to be their own daughter, who flees the palace in disguise. The film follows her escape and eventual romance with a prince.

whimsicalsurrealplayfulmusicalfairy-tale-likevisually stylizedromanticcampy

What happens

Donkey Skin (French: Peau d'âne; also known in English as Once Upon a Time and The Magic Donkey) is a 1970 French surrealist fantasy musical romantic comedy film directed by Jacques Demy, based on Donkeyskin, a 1695 fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to marry his own daughter. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin and Jean Marais, with music by Michel Legrand. Donkey Skin proved to be Demy's biggest success in France, with a total of 2,198,576 tickets sold. Donkey Skin is distributed on DVD in North America by Koch-Lorber Films. It is also available in Blu-ray format as part of Criterion's The Essential Jacques Demy collection. In France, the film is considered a cult classic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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