Directed By:Jacques Demy
Written By:Charles Perrault, Jacques Demy
Donkey Skin (re-release)
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Generally Favorable
70
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Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
70
57% Positive
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100
Tuneful, colorful, delightful.
88
It's practically a primer on how to rework a literary classic into an impressively restrained movie with something fresh and intelligent to say.
83
It's both innocent and bizarre, with a mischievous sense of fantasy marked by simple but striking cinematic magic.
75
Told with the simplicity and beauty of a child's fairy tale, but with emotional undertones and a surrealistic style that adults are more likely to appreciate.
60
An enjoyable hour-and-a-half for adults that creates a wholly unique world of colorful sets, costumes, and characters.
60
Seasonally it's more appropriate as a May Day bacchanal, but in any month Demy's movie makes for an evocative globe-paperweight tableau of its place and time, and a concise demonstration of the disquietude inherent in classic fairy tales.
50
It doesn't come off, despite a dazzling color design and imaginative sets, perhaps because Demy's extremely rarefied talent for fantasy needs to be anchored by a touch of the real.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
67% Positive
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Sep 21, 2016
9
A beautiful and stunning work, from both the acting primes of Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais and Delphine Seyrig, and the directorial prime of Jacques Demy. One of the most exquisite and memorable transfers of a children's fable to the big screen.
