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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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La poupée rouge (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.