Peau d'âne (1970)
(Donkey Skin, Once Upon a Time)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig
Synopsis:
Charles Perrault's tale of a widowed king who conceives the wish to marry his beautiful daughter, driving her into self-exile disguised in a donkey skin. Soon enough, she catches the eye of a passing prince�
Review:
One or two wilful anachronisms on Demy's part, not to mention the red and blue coloured guardsmen and their mounts, are complemented by Legrand's characteristically pleasant-but-forgettable songs, with their melodic facility and contemporary beat. It is handsomely shot in the Loire valley château of Chambord and elsewhere, and the pedigree cast play it all more or less straight, but it cannot help but seem somewhat irrelevant, even naïve, like a cross between Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and La Bête.
(Donkey Skin, Once Upon a Time)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig
Synopsis:
Charles Perrault's tale of a widowed king who conceives the wish to marry his beautiful daughter, driving her into self-exile disguised in a donkey skin. Soon enough, she catches the eye of a passing prince�
Review:
One or two wilful anachronisms on Demy's part, not to mention the red and blue coloured guardsmen and their mounts, are complemented by Legrand's characteristically pleasant-but-forgettable songs, with their melodic facility and contemporary beat. It is handsomely shot in the Loire valley château of Chambord and elsewhere, and the pedigree cast play it all more or less straight, but it cannot help but seem somewhat irrelevant, even naïve, like a cross between Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and La Bête.
(Donkey Skin, Once Upon a Time)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Delphine Seyrig
Synopsis:
Charles Perrault's tale of a widowed king who conceives the wish to marry his beautiful daughter, driving her into self-exile disguised in a donkey skin. Soon enough, she catches the eye of a passing prince�
Review:
One or two wilful anachronisms on Demy's part, not to mention the red and blue coloured guardsmen and their mounts, are complemented by Legrand's characteristically pleasant-but-forgettable songs, with their melodic facility and contemporary beat. It is handsomely shot in the Loire valley château of Chambord and elsewhere, and the pedigree cast play it all more or less straight, but it cannot help but seem somewhat irrelevant, even naïve, like a cross between Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and La Bête.