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Donkey skin Peau d'ane
Title:
Donkey skin Peau d'ane
Author:
Bodard, Mag, 1916-2019 film producer.
Publication Information:
Irvington, NY : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
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.
General Note:
Released as part of the Essential Jacques Demy collection.

Based on the fairytale by Charles Perrault.

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).
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781604658644

9781604658590
UPC:
715515119016
Format :
DVD