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Peau d'Âne (1970)

Family | 91 minutes
3,02 61 votes

Genre: Family / Fantasy

Duration: 91 minuten

Alternative title: Donkey Skin

Country: France

Directed by: Jacques Demy

Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais and Jacques Perrin

IMDb score: 7,0 (7.500)

Releasedate: 20 December 1970

Peau d'Âne plot

"The skin of an animal hid her captivating beauty that only a prince could discover!"

The king has promised the late queen to remarry only an equally beautiful woman and can find no other candidate than his own daughter. The princess flees in donkey skin and falls in love with the crown prince in another realm.

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Mug

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Deneuve still receives daily mail from those (very) little ones (from France)...

Kitsch galore including the well-known songs that (un?) adorn Demy's oeuvre. Full of references to other fairy tales (mainly by Perrault, even to that other important French fairy tale film adaptation of La Belle et la Bete by Cocteau) and French literature and prose. Peau d'Âne is therefore a bit different from the many East German and Czech fairy tale productions from the 1960s and 1970s, not to mention Wendy's reference to Can You Me...

Extravagant clothing, flamboyant decoration, sweet colours, and of course an eye-catching Deneuve who at the time exuded an 'air de la princesse' even without princess clothing.

Still, Wendy's criticism is justified. The compelling story is not there. Actually, Peau d'Âne is Perrault's copy of his own Cinderella. Then Demy lingers too long and then again he flies through the story at the speed of light. That coherence is lacking, while Demy manages to conjure up something crazy or beautiful every minute. Even helicopters...or Deneuve and her prince who approve of "drunkenness by alcohol." Yes, nothing is too crazy for this fairytale story. Curious or dubious? Long live the kitsch!

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Bobbejaantje

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Twenty years ago, this film introduced me to the work of Jacques Demy. In the meantime the fourth revision I think and it still retains its incredible charm. Demy-Legrand-Deneuve turned out to be a golden combination, also in the previous films. In the meantime it has also become clear to me that Demy got the artistic mustard for this film from Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) but he adds still has its own ingredients, of which humor and ambiguity are not the least. A classic for young and old.

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Roger Thornhill

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Should I just not be difficult and consider this as a filmed fairy tale? Then it must have been the most expensive filmed fairy tale ever in 1970, because all those beautiful sets and costumes would not have been available by themselves. And the film is a feast for the eyes, but at the same time, apart from that style, there is hardly any substance to keep the brain occupied for 90 minutes, apart from a few small jokes such as what comes out of the witch's mouth when she talks, and of course Delphine Seyrig who is just about the only one allowed to approach her role with irony. But apart from that, I can't really get excited about anything here and I'm only annoyed by that stupid depiction of how the princess disguises herself in the donkey skin from the title. In the suppléments on my Blu-ray, a quartet of psychoanalysts and literary scholars exhaust themselves in touching on deeper themes that Demy is said to have smuggled into the film very subtly: the incestuous father, irony, Oedipus, the king who wants to resurrect his dead wife, the fairy/godmother as psychoanalyst, the donkey that shits gold and jewels = the anal phase of the child who does not want to separate from its shit, the princess who nevertheless looks displeased when she hears that her godmother is going to marry her father – perhaps Demy did indeed hide all those themes in the film, but if he had wanted me to dig into those themes in depth, he should have made the surface a bit more intriguing and a bit less simplistic.
But then again, who am I – the IMDb trivia page for this film states that Peau d'âne drew a whopping 2,198,576 paying visitors in France. Yeah, with a box office take like that, I could have some horses painted red and blue too.

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