Donkey skin [videorecording] = Peau d'ane / Janus Films ; Ciné-Tamaris Films ; Mag Bodard présente ; coproduction, Parc Film, Marianne Productions ; un film écrit et réalisé par Jacques Demy.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781604658644
- ISBN: 1604658649
- ISBN: 9781604658590 (set)
- ISBN: 1604658592 (set)
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: 1970 motion picture release ; widescreen.
- Publisher: Irvington, NY : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Released as part of the Essential Jacques Demy collection. Based on the fairytale by Charles Perrault. Originally released as motion picture in 1970. Special features: Pour le cinéma (on set interviews with the director and actors in a segment from a 1970 episode of the French television program Pour le cinéma); "Donkey skin" illustrated (short program from 2008 presents images from several illustrated editions of Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Peau d'âne"); "Donkey skin" and the thinkers (2008 discussion between film critic Camille Taboulay, psychoanalysts Lucille Durrmeyer and Jean-Claude Polack, and seventeenth-century literature specialist Liliane Picciola on the film's themes of incest, love, and childhood fantasy); Jacques Demy at the American Film Institute (audio recording from 1971, director answers questions about his filmmaking and storytelling methods from students at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles). |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Music written and directed by Michel Legrand ; cinematography, Ghislain Cloquet ; art direction, Jacques Dugied ; costumes, Gitt Magrini ; editor, Anne Marie Cotret. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle, Delphine Seyrig, Fernand Ledoux, Henri Cremieux, Sacha Pitoeff, Pierre Repp, Jean Servais. |
Summary, etc.: | A princess flees marriage to her father by wearing his prize donkey skin as a disguise. When a neighboring Prince comes to town, a romance is born. |
System Details Note: | DVD: NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital 5.1 surround, 1.66:1 aspect ratio. |
Language Note: | In French with English subtitles. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | French language materials > Bilingual. Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 > Film adaptations. Princesses > Drama. Marriage > Drama. Disguise > Drama. Motion pictures > France. |
Genre: | Videos (DVD) Feature films. DVD-Video discs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Motion pictures > France. Foreign language films > French. French lanaguage films. |
Search for related items by series
- Criterion Collection ; 713
- Criterion Collection ; 718
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 713.
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 718.
- Essential Jacques Demy.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.