The 34thFrench Cinepanorama31/12, 15/1
Broadway Cinematheque
Donkey Skin
驢皮公主
1970
/ Color 彩色 / 100 mins
English Subtitles 英文字幕
Director 導演：
Jacques Demy 積葵．丹美
Cast 演員：
Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
嘉芙蓮．丹露、尚．馬赫、
積葵．貝列
Donkey Skin is told with the simplicity and beauty of a child's
fairy tale, but with emotional undertones and a surrealistic style
that resembles Cocteau's surrealistic masterpiece Beauty and the
Beast .
Inside the blue kingdom, the queen is dying, lying on her deathbed, she
orders the king, “Promise me you'll marry only when you find a wife more
beautiful than me.” A search begins for such a woman, but it is by no
means an easy task. All he has seen is one more ugly than the one before,
except one – his own daughter...
Donkey Skin is no ordinary fairy tale.
Its subversive ideologies are coated with a jolly good atmosphere of
music and dance, orchestrated by the master of French musical, Jacques
Demy ( The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of
Rochefort ). Cocteau's favorite actor, Jean Maris, plays the tragic king.
同樣是出自十七世紀
Charles Perrault 的手筆，《驢皮公主》就沒有他的其他童話作品《白雪公主》和《睡公主》般大行其道，皆因《驢皮公主》
〝 意識不良，教壞細佬 〞 ，故事中的少女主人說： ”I want to marry daddy” 。 這樣一個極具顛覆性的亂倫童話，落入法國新浪潮導演積葵．丹美的手中，便變成他向尚．高克多《美麗與野獸》致敬的作品。
藍色王國的皇后將不久人世，他向國王說：〝你找個比我更漂亮的當太后吧。〞
可是眾裡尋她，皇后的美，無人能及，世上只有他們的女兒才可媲美。
積葵．丹美借將，找來高克多的御用演員兼情人尚．馬赫，挪移《美麗與野獸》的超現實童話觸覺，再注入他的拿手好戲音樂劇（經典有《秋水伊人》）體裁，炮製出這部仿如糖衣毒藥的不朽作。