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Even on paper this couldn't have seemed such a terrific idea. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Even on paper this couldn't have seemed such a terrific idea.
Geoff Andrew
Donkey Skin is 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. Aug 11, 2005 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Donkey Skin is 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.
Roger Ebert
Even if the restoration doesn't make Donkey Skin this New Wave icon's best effort, it's now that much more worthy of keeping company with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort. Jan 14, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Even if the restoration doesn't make Donkey Skin this New Wave icon's best effort, it's now that much more worthy of keeping company with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort.
Janice Page
An ironically enchanting entertainment for grown-ups. Dec 23, 2004 | Full Review…
An ironically enchanting entertainment for grown-ups.
Andrew Sarris
Demy loved romantic naïveté, but he loved the wreckage of human whim just as much, and for him this chestnut harbored both in its shell. Dec 21, 2004
Demy loved romantic naïveté, but he loved the wreckage of human whim just as much, and for him this chestnut harbored both in its shell.
Michael Atkinson
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. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
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.
Dave Kehr
An odd but charming combination of a number of fairy tales, blended with anachronistically modern touches and mixed up with adult themes disguised in the form of mythic euphemisms. Nov 14, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An odd but charming combination of a number of fairy tales, blended with anachronistically modern touches and mixed up with adult themes disguised in the form of mythic euphemisms.
If you see just one film with a donkey that craps gold and jewels, see this one. Jun 4, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
If you see just one film with a donkey that craps gold and jewels, see this one.
Christopher Null
There's plenty of disguised sex in Donkey Skin. May 9, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
There's plenty of disguised sex in Donkey Skin.
Dan Callahan
[B]ursts with wild colors, a simmering sexuality, and a Broadway-style score... this is a sumptuous experience, emotionally, visually, and aurally... Apr 5, 2005
[B]ursts with wild colors, a simmering sexuality, and a Broadway-style score... this is a sumptuous experience, emotionally, visually, and aurally...
MaryAnn Johanson
It's both innocent and bizarre, with a mischievous sense of fantasy marked by simple but striking cinematic magic. Feb 10, 2005 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
It's both innocent and bizarre, with a mischievous sense of fantasy marked by simple but striking cinematic magic.
Sean Axmaker
Tuneful, colorful, delightful. Jan 6, 2005 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Tuneful, colorful, delightful.
David Sterritt
[font=Century Gothic]Once upon a time, in "Donkey Skin", there was a king(Jean Marais) and queen who lived happily with their daughter(Catherine Deneuve) until the queen lay dying. On her deathbed, she makes her husband promise that he should only remarry if he can find someone who is more beautiful than she is. After a long and fruitless search, the king realizes that the only person who fits that description is his daughter and asks for her hand in marriage. Naturally, she is not crazy about the idea and goes to her fairy godmother(Delphine Seyrig) for advice. As a stalling tactic, the princess as a condition of accepting the proposal is to ask her father for dresses the colors of weather, the moon and the sun, thinking each request impossible. On each count, the king is successful, each dress more glorious than the previous one. In desperation, she is to ask for the skin of the donkey who magically defecates gems and gold. Again, he accedes. After which the fairy godmother puts the princess into the Princess Protection Program...[/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Donkey Skin" is a delightful musical fairytale brought forth by the unique vision of Jacques Demy. The movie is about all of the different varieties of love and the many varied ways people can show their affection.[/font]
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