Rent Donkey Skin (1970)
3.6 of 5 from 68 ratings
1h 25min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Catherine Deneuve stars as a Princess whose father, the King (Jean Marais), seeks her hand in marriage after promising his dying wife to only wed a woman more beautiful than she. Listening to her godmother, the Fairy of Lilacs (Delphine Seyrig), the frightened Princess flees to a neighbouring farm and hides as a scullery maid, while wearing the skin of her father's prized donkey as a disguise. A visiting Prince passes by, and an unlikely romance is born.
- Actors:
- Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux, Henri Crémieux, Sacha Pitoëff, Pierre Repp, Jean Servais, Georges Adet, Annick Berger, Romain Bouteille, Louise Chevalier, Sylvain Corthay, Michel Delahaye, Simone Guisin, Gabriel Jabbour, Bernard Musson, Patrick Préjean
- Directors:
- Jacques Demy
- Producers:
- Mag Bodard
- Voiced By:
- Jean Servais
- Writers:
- Charles Perrault, Jacques Demy
- Aka:
- Peau d'Ane
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Classics, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- 10 Films to Watch if You Like: EO, A Few More Screen Princes, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Getting to Know: Catherine Deneuve
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/02/2020
- Run Time:
- 90 minutes
- Languages:
- French DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Two documentaries by filmmaker Agnes Varda: The World of Jacques Demy (1995) and The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
- Four short films by director Jacques Demy: Les horizons morts (1951), Le sabotier du Vai de Loire (1956), Ars (1959), and La luxure (1962)
- Jacques Demy, A to Z, a 2014 visual essay by critic James Quandt
- Archival interviews with Demy, composer Michel Legrand, and actors Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, and Jacques Perrin
- "Donkey Skin" Illustrated, a 2008 program on the many versions of Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Donkey Skin" and the Thinkers, a 2008 program featuring critic Camille Tabouley
- New conversation between Demy biographer Jean-Pierre Berthome and costume designer Jacqueline Moreau
- Interviews from 2014 with journalist Marie Colmant and film scholar Rodney Hill
- Archival audio Q&A with Demy
- Archival audio interviews with Legrand and Deneuve
