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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)
- Director
- Writers
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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.
- Quotes
La princesse: Poetry deranges you, Father.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Jacquot of Nantes (1991)
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French beauty at its best
Jacques Demy is a French maker who is famous for his musicals such as "les parapluies de Cherbourg" or "les demoiselles de Rochefort". For this movie, he chose to adapt a fairy tale written by Charles Perrault during the seventeenth century and he wisely chose. This movie is a real treat, an absolute enchantment and rare are the movies that succeed in recreating the wonderful atmosphere of fairy tales. Everything, here, reaches a level of perfection rarely reached: sceneries and costumes are marvellous, especially the rooms of the first castle that you see at the beginning of the movie. Moreover, a part of it was made at Chambord. Then, the music is really gorgeous and the songs ravishing. I also noticed that Demy introduced a contemporary humor which contains numerous anachronisms. For example, near the end of the film, Jean Marais appears in a helicopter! However, the story takes place in the seventeenth century. How strange it is... Don't forget, a performance of quality. Catherine Deneuve is an ideal and delicate princess but Jean Marais is probably the best actor in the movie. He's very convincing in his role of tormented and jaded king. Besides, it was his last role for the cinema. After that, he's given over to painting and sculpture. Even if certain special effects are a little kitsch, the movie is impregnated with a lot of poetry. So, at the end, a movie that seduces the eyesight and the hearing and this is one of Demy's masterpieces.
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- Dec 20, 2002
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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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