Donkey Skin
For this screening, the lighting and sound are adjusted to create a calm, safe, and inclusive environment. Viewers are free to move, express themselves, and interact as they wish. Whether you're attending alone, with friends, or with family, our relaxed screenings offer a friendly and accessible cinematic experience for everyone, especially neuroatypical people and those with newborn babies.
This film is presented in a relaxed format. The lighting and sound will be adjusted to create a calm, safe, and inclusive environment. Sounds and light conversation will be allowed. Seats are limited.
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Even more than The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Donkey Skin is Jacques Demy's iconic success. His adaptation of Charles Perrault's fairy tale, both pop and timeless, surprises with its constant audacity and wild originality. Catherine Deneuve seems to have been born to play this role, while Jean Marais and Delphine Seyrig take great pleasure in embodying these unlikely characters.
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and opera. His films contain overlapping continuity (some characters cross over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by Michel Legrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to Agnès Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
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