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Sunday, Mar 31, 2019
4 PM (90 mins)
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BAMPFA
Donkey Skin
(Peau d’âne)
Digital Restoration
Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig,
This charming adaptation of a fairy tale by Charles Perrault has been called Jacques Demy’s “grand synthesis of Cocteau and Minnelli,” graced with wondrous costumes and vivid colors, ingenious trick effects and a stellar cast. The tale involves a beautiful princess (Catherine Deneuve) whose father, the Blue King (Jean Marais), desires to marry her in order to fulfill a deathbed promise to his wife that his next wife be even more beautiful than herself. The princess enlists the aid of the Lilac Fairy (Delphine Seyrig), and together they devise a scheme of imaginative demands designed to thwart even the most ardent suitor.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Jacques Demy
Based On
A fairy tale by Charles Perrault
Cinematographer
- Ghislain Cloquet
Language
- French
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 90 mins
Source
- Janus Films