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  • Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle
  • Directors: Jacques Demy
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Oct 2005
  • Run Time: 100 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000AMSSC0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,346 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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DONKEY SKIN, a lyrical fantasy based on a fairy tale by Charles Perrault, takes place in a mythical kingdom where a queen's dying wish is that her husband remarry someone more beautiful than she. Unfortunately that woman turns out to be their daughter (played by Deneuve). After consulting her Fairy, the Princess conceives several schemes to escape her father, finally escaping in the skin of his favorite donkey and hiding in the outer reaches of the kingdom. In her new persona of Donkey Skin, the princess lives life as a simple scullion, but eventually a handsome prince discovers the princess in hiding.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely delightful anarchic fairytale, 15 Nov 2005
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Peau D'Ane/Donkey Skin is an unexpected delight. Jacques Demy's fairytale musical has one of the most gorgeous uses of color ever seen thanks to Ghislain Coquet's photography and the sumptuous visual design (one kingdom has blue-clad, blue-faced servants and blue horses, the other red-clad red-faced servants and red horses), and the script manages to juggle just enough knowing wit without turning into total parody - despite featuring a donkey that craps rubies and emeralds, a crone who spits frogs and a king who wants to marry his daughter in the one film about incest that's still suitable for the whole family, it's played admirably straight.

Michel Legrand's songs are as pleasant as they are unmemorable and anarchic (one romantic duet features lyrics about snack bars while another is simply a recipe for a cake) and if Catherine Deneuve's voice double sings even worse than Deneuve acts, it still somehow comes across as charming (although things do go badly for the donkey). Beautiful stylistic touches abound, from the princess running in slow motion through frozen villagers to the how-did-they-do-that-then? dress the color of the weather, but never at the expense of the storytelling. Not quite up there with 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,' but light years ahead of 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.'

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Ludicrous but somehow compelling!, 3 Dec 2005
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On the one hand when viewed in the context of other films that the leading players have appeared in etc. this film could be regarded as a load of ludicrous tosh,albeit with high production values and big name actors, and if it's through a search on either Jean Marais or Catherine Deneuve that you have arrived here be warned! - this is no highbrowish arthouse stuff( Jean Marais appears relatively little and although always great to watch essentially does a self-parody of his earlier classic roles). On the other hand it's the kind of ludricrousness that somehow captivates..much of the pleasure is to be had through exlamations of 'what the...'! and bouts of combined wincing-groaning-laughing - the songs especially induce this kind of effect

The plot is essentially a reworking of a well known fairy story. At one point Catherine Deneuve bakes a cake.. the recipe for this film is approximately 6 parts very-70's Sunday afternoon TV near Christmas 'Slipper and the Rose'-like saccharine musical, 3 parts a sort of homage to Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la Bete' (Beauty and the Beast) but attempts (emphasis here) to recreate the visual effects of that film are pretty lamentable (in a way this was inevitable given that the overall colour scheme of the film appoximates that of the first version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,and indeed there are even some very Umpa-Lumpa like royal servants at one point) 1 part a working in of a magical connection to the present (in the 1970s French culture seems for some reason to have decided to play around with the idea of incest in a dubious playful totally unrealistic sort of way.. and there may even be a song on that one!)

If nothing else defintely worth renting for the whackiness and the so-bad-its-good factor!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Weird but watchable, 2 Jan 2009
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I don't know for whom this film was made. In many ways it's a lavishly filmed fairy story for children played by top actors with some adult in-jokes and weirdly anachronistic inserts. The nearest thing I can think of is a Christmas pantomime version of Cinderella that bends the story to appeal to adults, while keeping children entertained, with references to modern-day events and personalities. The costumes are gorgeous and the background scenery is wonderfully cartoon-like. A preposterous, weird, yet funny film--I've never seen anything quite like it!
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