Jacques Demy – Peau d’âne AKA Donkey Skin (1970)

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Donkey Skin takes its story from the fairy tale of the same name, as told by 17th-century French writer Charles Perrault. A variant of Cinderella, the tale begins with a king (Jean Marais), who is well-loved and very happy, as he has a beautiful wife (Catherine Deneuve) and a beautiful daughter (Deneuve again), not to mention a literal moneymaker in a donkey that doesn’t excrete the usual fertilizer, but instead gold and jewels. The king’s fortunes take a turn for the worse when he loses his wife to a sudden illness. Before she dies, he makes the unwise promise to only marry a woman more beautiful than she. When the king’s ministers force him to undertake another marriage to produce a male heir, the only woman who surpasses the dead queen in beauty is…his daughter. Being that this is a fairy tale, things work a bit differently, and the usual opposition to incest is brushed over fairly easily. The most amusing bit comes when the king asks his wise man whether the marriage would be wrong, and the wise man responds that all little girls want to marry their father, and that if the wise man had a daughter, he’d want to marry her. So there!

Daughter (she has no given name in the film) isn’t totally sure, though. She runs off to visit her godmother, the Lilac Fairy (Delphine Seyrig), who informs her that under no circumstances should she marry her father. She tells the daughter to stall him by asking for a series of increasingly elaborate dresses (the colors of weather, the moon, and then the sun), which he delivers accordingly. Finally, they must play their final card: the daughter asks for the skin of the prize donkey. “My banker?” exclaims the king. But he consents, and following this ultimate show of love, the Lilac Fairy tells daughter to flee, wearing the donkey skin as a disguise.

Jacques Demy - (1970) Donkey Skin.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 30mn
Size: 	1.52 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	960x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.667
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 149 Kbps
BPP: 	0.162
Audio
#1:  	French 5.1ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/1E8EDB96E8656BC/Jacques_Demy_-_(1970)_Donkey_Skin.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English