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Fashion in Film: Donkey Skin (PG)
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
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Saturday 25th October, 5.30pm
Dir. Jacques Demy, France, 1970, 89 mins. In French with English subtitles. Cast. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais. Costume design by Gitt Magrini.
Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin adapts Charles Perrault's eponymous fairy tale into a surrealist musical that interrogates taboos, agency and cultural mythmaking. Like the director's earlier film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the film's candy colours belie its subversive examinations of sex and class, with a young woman caught at the centre. A young princess is dressed in magnificently gaudy gowns, yet in a bid to escape her father's marriage proposal, she dons a donkey skin before running away from her kingdom. She is enrobed by the shame and degradation of her circumstances – but there is freedom to be found at the edge of her hybrid existence. The film offers a fantastical slant on the transformative effects of what we wear, the complexities of fur, and how our proximity to animality can liberate us from the bounds of conventional fashions.
GROUNDED: Fashion's Entanglements with Nature
Fashion in Film Festival presents GROUNDED, a major UK-wide season exploring the relationship between fashion and nature through the lens of cinema. Spanning the late 19th century to present day, the programme examines fashion's role as simultaneously a barrier and a connecting tissue between humans and the natural world. GROUNDED presents diverse narratives addressing ecological and geopolitical concerns while exploring imaginative spaces of poetry, comedy, beauty, joy, horror, and transgression. fashioninfilm.com
