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Donkey Skin (re-release)

EMAILPRINTKoch Lorber Films

Donkey Skin (re-release) reviews
70
9.6 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 7 critic reviews
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Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Family/Kids  |  Fantasy  |  Musical  |  Romance

Written by: Jacques Demy
Charles Perrault (story)

Directed by: Jacques Demy

Release Date:
Theatrical: December 24, 2004
DVD: May 10, 2005

Running Time: 100 minutes, Color

Origin: France

Language(s): French (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux, Henri Crémieux, and Sacha Pitoëff

Jacques Demy's 1970 film is a lyrical fantasy based on a fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Tuneful, colorful, delightful.

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88

Boston Globe Janice Page

It's practically a primer on how to rework a literary classic into an impressively restrained movie with something fresh and intelligent to say.

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83

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

It's both innocent and bizarre, with a mischievous sense of fantasy marked by simple but striking cinematic magic.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Told with the simplicity and beauty of a child's fairy tale, but with emotional undertones and a surrealistic style that adults are more likely to appreciate.

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60

TV Guide Staff (Not credited)

An enjoyable hour-and-a-half for adults that creates a wholly unique world of colorful sets, costumes, and characters.

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60

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

Seasonally it's more appropriate as a May Day bacchanal, but in any month Demy's movie makes for an evocative globe-paperweight tableau of its place and time, and a concise demonstration of the disquietude inherent in classic fairy tales.

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50

Chicago Reader Dave Kehr

It doesn't come off, despite a dazzling color design and imaginative sets, perhaps because Demy's extremely rarefied talent for fantasy needs to be anchored by a touch of the real.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

dick k. gave it a10:
Filmmaking may have never produced a Michelangelo, as M. Scorsese points out, but it has certainly produced a Matisse: J. Demy. Peau D'ane is the best of Demy's wild beast period which probably ran up to the late seventies with the slightly pregnant man. The story is fragmentary, the plot line at times incomprehensible, but who cares? A beautiful film, a relic of sorts of the early (still psychedelic) Seventies. Enjoy the parts where Cathy gets stoned on the river barge.

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