Donkey skin

DVD - 2014

With the help of her fairy godmother, a princess flees marriage to her father by wearing his prize donkey skin as a disguise. When a neighboring Prince comes to town, a romance is born.

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Subjects
Genres
Fantasy films
Feature films
New wave films
Musical films
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection [2014]
Language
French
English
Corporate Authors
Janus Films, Ciné Tamaris (Firm), Parc Film (Firm), Marianne Films
Corporate Authors
Janus Films (production company), Ciné Tamaris (Firm), Parc Film (Firm), Marianne Films
Other Authors
Jacques Demy (screenwriter), Mag Bodard, 1916-2019 (film producer), Catherine Deneuve, 1943- (actor), Jean Marais, 1913-1998 (-), Jacques Perrin, 1941-2022, Micheline Presle, Delphine Seyrig, 1932-1990, Fernand Ledoux, 1897-1993, Henri Crémieux, 1896-1980, Sacha Pitoëff, 1920-1990, Pierre Repp, 1909-1986, Jean Servais, 1910-1976, Charles Perrault, 1628-1703
Edition
DVD special edition
Item Description
Title from container.
Based on the story by Charles Perrault.
Issued as part of the Essential Jacques Demy boxed set.
Originally released as motion picture in 1970.
Special features: Pour le cinéma (on set interviews with the director and actors in a segment from a 1970 episode of the French television program Pour le cinéma); "Donkey skin" illustrated (short program from 2008 presents images from several illustrated editions of Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Peau d'âne"); "Donkey skin" and the thinkers (2008 discussion between film critic Camille Taboulay, psychoanalysts Lucille Durrmeyer and Jean-Claude Polack, and seventeenth-century literature specialist Liliane Picciola on the film's themes of incest, love, and childhood fantasy); Jacques Demy at the American Film Institute (audio recording from 1971, director answers questions about his filmmaking and storytelling methods from students at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles).
Physical Description
1 videodiscs (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD: NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital 5.1 surround, 1.66:1 aspect ratio.
DVD.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Music, Michel Legrand ; cinematography, Ghislain Cloquet ; art direction, Jacques Dugied ; costumes, Gitt Magrini ; editor, Anne Marie Cotret.
ISBN
9781604658644
9781604658590
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