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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.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.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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Henri Crémieux
- Le chef des médecins
- (as Henri Cremieux)
Sacha Pitoëff
- Le premier ministre (The Minister)
- (as Sacha Pitoeff)
Jean Servais
- Le récitant
- (voice)
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- TriviaDonkey Skin (1970) proved to be Jacques Demy's biggest success in France with a total of 2,198,576 admissions. In France, the film is considered a cult classic. It was Demy's top box office hit of all his work.
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La princesse: Poetry deranges you, Father.
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This is a classic!
Being a university student in the 60's, in Toronto, it was a given that one saw as many foreign films as possible. The French New Wave was happening so we all trudged off to see the latest incomprehensible (to me) Godard or the new, much more accessible Truffaut or the ever bleaker Bergman or the latest jaw-dropper from Fellini and woe betide you if you dared to admit that you didn't "get" Antonioni. We knew how to pronounce the names of Japanese and Czech directors and argued the merits of Bunuel. We were into it, man. Cinema (not "the movies") was our passion. So how did "Peau d'Ane pass us by? I'd seen "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg" of course. Who hadn't? Jacques Demy and Michel Legrande were practically house-hold names and yet no one raced off to see "Peau d'Ane". I'm sure it must have had a theatrical release, here and I dimly remember being aware of it at the time but it certainly didn't have the "Oh muh God!" critical reaction and word-of-mouth that would have turned it into the cult hit that it should have been. With no CGI and, by today's standards, the simplest of special effects, this movie is utterly magical and astonishing. I suspect that, for 1970, it was just too "French". The story is an (apparently) beloved French classic by Felix Perrault but quite unknown outside French culture. The title, "Donkey's Skin" and a slightly ick-factor plot line may have put off critics and audiences at the time but I'm now convinced that every director of the spate of fantasy movies that we currently enjoy has been heavily influenced by "Peau d'Ane".
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- Aug 6, 2006
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $59,337
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Sound mix
- Mono(original version)
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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