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Donkey Skin (re-release)

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Based on 7 critic reviews
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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.
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's both innocent and bizarre, with a mischievous sense of fantasy marked by simple but striking cinematic magic.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
