This short program from 2008 presents images from several illustrated editions of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale “Peau d’âne,” including those from the first printing in 1695.
In this 2008 discussion, film critic Camille Taboulay, psychoanalysts Lucille Durrmeyer and Jean-Claude Polack, and seventeenth-century literature specialist Liliane Picciola talk about DONKEY SKIN’s themes of incest, love, and childhood fantasy.
In this excerpted audio recording from 1971, director Jacques Demy answers questions about his filmmaking and storytelling methods from students at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.