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This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The visuals are good, and interesting, but the pacing is slow, the songs are cheesy, and the ending rips off another fairy tale in a dumb way. However, it's worth a glance to see the beautiful Catherine Deneuve.

despite the large slices of kitsch, despite the not inspired moments and the mark of period spirit, it is a lovely film. a fairy tale in charming clothes, a beautiful demonstration of imagination, a lovely use of fantastic and good cast. it is far to be perfect but its sins seems be so adorable than nothing is real wrong. a movie like a spring wind, not serious but poetic, with Catherine Deneveuve not in her best role but doing enough for create a funny one, with Jean Marais in convincing king looking his perfect wife - the cat-throne is the inspired detail -,with musical moments who are not the best but represents not bad humor examples. message from a lost world, its sensitivity is far to be lost.

I'm not from this generation so I was discovering Jean Marais movies. I didn't knew what this movie was about. I thought it was another swashbuckler movie.Having known what it was I would probably not have watched it out of prejudices specially against musical movies... It was like a good Disney classic with actors, this will also sound bad for lots of people I know. That's why I decided to write a review about it. To tell people that this movie isn't as bad as it may look like.Its not a dark movie for adults but its not aimed at children either which makes it very enjoyable even 44 years later for a young man like me who hates this type of movies.Also since its a fairy tale movie, the few parts where they sign not only don't look out of context but they even are a bit funny like in Disney movies.This movie is very well made specially for a movie from 1970. There isn't a lot of visual effects but the few they have are very good and simple.One issue is the theme being a bit too much about incest, it makes the whole thing a bit awkward but it doesn't ruin the movie.

If ever you need any kind of indication that fairy tales were not always excessively cute stories to entertain children, look no further than Jacques Demy's movie version of Charles Perrault's "Peau d'ane" ("Donkey Skin" in English). I had heard some about the story but until now never known the specific plot. The events during the first part of the movie imply that it must have been harder to gross people out in the 17th century.But once Donkey Skin (Catherine Deneuve) flees, the film becomes almost a different movie. Aside from the fact that she now has to live among the peasants and do lowly work, her experiences with the prince (Jacques Perrin) take on a dimension of their own. The movie has a hippie-like quality, what with the colors and the fact that Donkey Skin and the prince set out to break the rules. And finally at the end, a deliberate anachronism; not only has the film had several contrasts between colors, there's a contrast between old and modern. This is truly a movie unlike any other.So while I do recommend the film, I should remind you that this is not really a movie for the little ones. Seriously, some of the stuff in the first part of the movie was the sort of stuff that one would expect in a Farrelly brothers movie. No matter; as a whole, the movie is one that you'll probably never forget. Also starring Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig, Micheline Presle and Fernand Ledoux.PS: in a DVD featurette about the production, they note that Jim Morrison visited the set. Now there was something that Charles Perrault never could have predicted!