By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Jacques Perrin | Jean Marais | Micheline Presle
Original language title: Peau d'âne
Country: france
Year: 1970
Running time: 91
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066207/reference
Hilary says: “I encourage the local membership to go see DONKEY SKIN (Peau d’âne) at the Brattle this week — it’s a trippy good time!
“Stylistically, Jacques Demy’s adaptation of a 17th-century fairy tale is somewhere between CAMELOT and WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: royalty in gigantic, shiny finery, palace staff painted in the kingdom’s signature colors, an enchanted donkey, a fairy, and an anchronistic arrival in the final scene.
“Not enough? How about a young Catherine Deneuve alternating between proper princess garb and the titular donkey skin?
“Great stuff — 5 cats“
Donkey Skin