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Donkey Skin
Directed by
Jacques Demy
1970
90m
Musical
,
Fantasy
,
and more
7.0
89%
77%
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A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.
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Criterion Channel
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Cast of Donkey Skin
Catherine Deneuve
Princess 'Donkey Skin'
Jacques Perrin
Prince Charming
Jean Marais
The King
Delphine Seyrig
The Fairy
Fernand Ledoux
The Red King
Micheline Presle
The Red Queen
Sacha Pitoëff
The Prime Minister
Henri Crémieux
The Chief Doctor
Pierre Repp
Thibaut
Louise Chevalier
The Old Farmer
Patrick Préjean
Allard
Michel Delahaye
The Second Minister
Anne Germain
Princess 'Donkey Skin' (singing voice)
Coluche
Chanteur
Rosalie Varda
Extra (uncredited)
Jacques Demy
Director / Writer
Charles Perrault
Writer
Mag Bodard
Producer
Donkey Skin Ratings & Reviews
rajmoonlight
April 10, 2025
Unusual fairytale. Visionally exquisite. Family trauma. Incredible costume and set designs. Soft girl Pinterest board vibes. Dream -like and nonsensical.
Screen Slate
Saffron Maeve
A work so warmly assured that it eludes the parabolic quality of its source material, censuring nothing but laughing at everything.
ianthomasmalone.com
Ian Thomas Malone
The costumes are gorgeous, completely over the top. Each royal character's wardrobe looks like it was designed to achieve maximum flamboyance, layers upon layers of excess.
Los Angeles Free Press
Jacoba Atlas
While Donkey Skin never quite takes on the dimension of La Belle et La Bete, It does offer that rare cinematic quality - charm.
TV Guide
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
If you see just one film with a donkey that craps gold and jewels, see this one.
Slant Magazine
Dan Callahan
There's plenty of disguised sex in Donkey Skin.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's both innocent and bizarre, with a mischievous sense of fantasy marked by simple but striking cinematic magic.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
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.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Tuneful, colorful, delightful.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
An ironically enchanting entertainment for grown-ups.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Demy loved romantic navet, but he loved the wreckage of human whim just as much, and for him this chestnut harbored both in its shell.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Demy creates a surreal dream world that is estranged from the reality of time or place.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
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.
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