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Donkey Skin

FantasyComedyMusicRomance

Directed by Jacques Demy

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father. From TMDB

74 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 22, 2026 · How this works

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Donkey Skin is a 1970 fantasy comedy music film, directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin and Jean Marais.

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  • Caroline✦ @carolinejamhour.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    Watched this french movie called Donkey Skin and the king sits on the most peculiar throne

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2026

    Catherine Deneuve. One of the most talented & beautiful women in film history. Happy Birthday, 10/22/43. Faves include 64 Umbrellas of Cherbourg 65 Repulsion 67 Young Girls of Rochefort 67 Belle du Jour 70 Donkey Skin 80 Last Metro 83 Hunger 92 Indochine 00 Dancer in the Dark 02 8 Women #filmsky 📽

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 22, 2025

    Catherine Deneuve. One of the most talented & beautiful women in film history. Happy Birthday, 10/22/43. Faves include 64 Umbrellas of Cherbourg 65 Repulsion 67 Young Girls of Rochefort 67 Belle du Jour 70 Donkey Skin 80 Last Metro 83 Hunger 92 Indochine 00 Dancer in the Dark 02 8 Women #filmsky 📽

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  • Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    fellas why do every hot girl got a thing of unused miso paste in the fridge, trauma from a defunct warrior cats forum, and strong opinions on the seminal 1970 french surrealist film "Donkey Skin"

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  • In Praise of Shadows @praiseshadows.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    This was so good. Horribly grotesque. Best score I’ve heard in ages used in a film that really knew how to let it breathe when it needed along with some great visuals. Kind of akin to Donkey Skin at times. Really loved this one. I think I got out of it what a lot of people got from The Substance.

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  • Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2025

    Images from films shot by cinematographer Ghislain Cloquet - BOTD in 1924 - Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Statues Also Die (Cloquet also co-directed the film with Chris Marker and Alain Resnais) - Donkey Skin (1970) - Le Trou (1960)

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  • andros_rex @[email protected]Lemmy · Jun 25, 2026

    Movies with deliberately anachronistic endings/scenes?. I was watching [Donkey Skin](https://youtu.be/Iz6mLeXpRJ8?is=udgv_ymShU5NGa9s) (absolutely gorgeous costuming - the kind of thing we’ll probably never see again) and the ending involves a helicopter showing up out of nowhere. It’s kinda shocking, because the film is set in a sort of fantasy medieval Europe. Another film that does this is Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert. ::: spoiler spoiler The Devil transports Simon to a modern day club at…

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  • Patrick Allaby @patrickallaby.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2025

    Watched Donkey Skin with some friends this week. It's an incredible movie, and I wish they made more like it. I love how it just embraces the absurdity of fairy-tale logic. Didi intensely reminded me of what it was like being a teenager online in the late aughts. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

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  • The Craggus @thecraggus.comBluesky · Oct 31, 2025

    #LetterboxdFriday Doing a double drop today as I’ll be piling on the horror movies for Halloween so here’s my pre-31st October #LastFourWatched, only one of which was actually terrifying (it was Donkey Skin) 🤪

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  • Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 17, 2025

    The aesthetics of Tale of Tales are spaced like you figure a fairy tale movie would be, to the level of Jaques Demy’s Donkey Skin, where it’s almost childishly simple but absurdly complex

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  • erika @coucouerika.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    A favorite film that starts with the letter “D” #filmsky Donkey Skin (1970)

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  • Samael Jigoku @samaeljigoku.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2026

    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Donkey Skin O, Lucky Man! - Watched this when I had Covid which was certainly a choice.

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

    My ★★★★ review of The World of Jacques Demy boxd.it/8GxRsF Nice tribute thru Demy's successes & failures. Lots of celebrity contributions & film footage. Jim Morrison on set of DONKEY SKIN! Harrison Ford almost starred in LOLA sequel, but execs hated him! #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎞 Criterion Collection 719

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  • Cinefeast33 (demon version) 📽📺📚 @cinefeast33.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2025

    #NowWatching DONKEY SKIN, aka PEAU D'ANE (1970). Director: Jacques Demy. Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin. Demy and muse Deneuve go into full-on fairy tale mode. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬 Criterion Collection 718

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  • Mircalla @inplacesdeep.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2026

    My wife watching Donkey Skin (1970): There's a naked woman and she's blue. This is the perfect movie.

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  • Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    favorite film for each year of the '70s: 1970: Donkey Skin 1971: Harold and Maude 1972: What's Up, Doc 1973: Paper Moon 1974: Young Frankenstein (Madeline Kahn supremacy) 1975: Picnic at Hanging Rock 1976: Taxi Driver 1977: House 1978: Dawn of the Dead 1979: The Warriors

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  • Nick "Big Stretch" Davis @dickrnavis.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2025

    September has come and gone and I saw some good movies Favourite first time watches: - Everything Jacques Demy, especially Young Girls of Rochefort and Donkey Skin - One Battle After Another - Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie - Peking Opera Blues

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  • Aah BOOO Rah, Scary PDX Stereotype @acjaggard.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    2 much 2 do 2 nite, PDX: "URGH! A Music War" cstpdx.com/event/revolu... Ooh a Ray Brown tribute... the1905.turntabletickets.com/calendar "Cookie Queens" www.fandango.com/cookie-queen... "Legendary Weapons of Kung Fu" hollywoodtheatre.org/show/legenda... "Donkey Skin" everout.com/portland/eve...

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  • Soundkeeper @soundkeeper.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2026

    AP, are you familiar with the fairy tale Donkey-Skin, aka Peau d’Âne? They made it into a Jacques Demy movie with Catherine Deneuve, and the story is a **ride**. It’s in several places to strim. I’d watch it without the kids first, if you have the itch. For some reason.

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  • The Monster Society of Evil @monstersocietyevil.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    Is that from Donkey Skin? What a movie!!

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    For #JanuaryMovieChallenge caught up @omacolt.bsky.social !!! #Filmsky #Moviesky Day 15 : Donkey in a movie.... has to be Donkey Skin and as found in this list... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/t...

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  • yikesahootie.bsky.social @yikesahootie.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2025

    Donkey Skin is a fucked up movie #TCMParty

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  • Noel Thingvall @noelct.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2024

    Just watched Donkey Skin (1970) with the Monday Criterion group. My first Jacques Demy film! 3 stars. It was a little loose and dragged a bit, but charming, fun, and gorgeously designed.

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Jun 19, 2023

    Tonight on “Shelley Duvall’s WTF Theatre”… #TCMParty #TCMImports #DonkeySkin

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  • Tori @mxtori.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    When @ladyfoxglove.bsky.social is streaming I usually have something weird on in the next room 😂 tonight was Donkey Skin (1970). This is such a beautiful, surreal and silly musical fairytale and I loved every moment lol. I mean just look at this movie poster. 💙

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    For #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge, catch up... #Filmsky #Moviesky #TVsky Oct 2: Movie Character Wears Something White.. Jacques Perrin's prince and Catherine Deneuve's princess in in Donkey Skin / Peau d’Âne (1970)… weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/m...

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  • Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    THE WOLF HOUSE directors Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña remix DONKEY SKIN by way of THE BEAST with their beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy DONKEY PRINCESS. My @indiewire.com review from Locarno www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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  • LiLi 莉莉 @nines82.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2026

    Donkey Skin (1970) - Jacques Demy, Charles Perrault, Marianne Productions, Parc Film this movie is deathly unserious but I adore it.

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    For #HolidayMovieTVChallenge by @omacolt.bsky.social Day 25... Opening presents... #Filmsky #Moviesky A princess opens some presents from her father, in Donkey Skin and one on this list weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/t...

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  • Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    Yes, the ten films listed here are each in their way quite weird - but any list of the weirdest movie musicals ever made is incomplete unless it includes Skidoo, Donkey Skin, and The Happiness of the Katakuris.

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  • st. wilhelmina 🗝️🌙 @empathicdoll.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    New omegaverse hannigram fic dropped. Basing this one off of my favorite 1970s film & fairy tale Peau d'Ane (Donkey Skin) 🤍 As always, mind the tags. 💌🔗: archiveofourown.org/works/62948524

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  • The Dad called Ian @tankerdfull.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2024

    Donkey Skin is a hell of a good porn title. I am interested in knowing how it was as an actual movie?

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  • Aaron Benmark @benmarka.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    Been filling in some 70s film blindspots lately. Watched Donkey Skin and El Topo this weekend. Found the former charming, if slight, and the latter creative and interesting but a bit much.

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  • Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2024

    🥁 NEW EPISODE ALERT! 🥁 Following on from 🇬🇧 Halloween, we bring you a 🇫🇷 fairytale in Garlic&Pearls. In which I have @suzanneraine.bsky.social spellbound and scandalised by the 1970 children’s film DONKEY SKIN, a psychedelic fairytale starring Catherine Deneuve…

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  • Eden @edencosmic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2024

    Jacques Demy made a movie of a shoujo manga! That should be good but ... it is not. (We still have Donkey Skin, which is a shoujo movie.) I am more of an Agnès Varda girlie but I still love Jacques Demy.

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Mar 8, 2024

    And now our feature presentation is the experimental French fantasy musical “Donkey Skin”/“Peau d'Âne” directed by French Mr. Agnès Varda himself Jacques Demy #LaEsoterica #DonkeySkin #JacquesDemy

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Mar 6, 2024

    @MatthewTitus88 “Donkey Skin” is one of those films that if you showed someone different clips and then told them they were all from the same film they’d never believe you #LaEsoterica #DonkeySkin

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Mar 6, 2024

    @MatthewTitus88 We’re somehow not even at the craziest part of the film yet… #LaEsoterica #DonkeySkin

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Mar 6, 2024

    Of all of Jacques Demy’s films “Donkey Skin” is his most commercially successful work the world over and it remains a cult classic #LaEsoterica #DonkeySkin

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  • Joe Watching ⚽🎞️🚴📺 @[email protected]Mastodon · Mar 5, 2024

    I'll never complain about shoulder pads in old movies again. #DonkeySkin #LaEsoterica

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Mar 5, 2024

    Our feature presentation is the experimental French fantasy musical “Donkey Skin”/“Peau d'Âne” directed by French Mr. Varda himself Jacques Demy #LaEsoterica #DonkeySkin #JacquesDemy

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  • Dorian @dorwright.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2024

    Watched the Jaques Demy PIED PIPER tonight, and wow, that is just a lovely film all around. Was surprised to like it so much after bouncing hard off his DONKEY SKIN.

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  • dc20Thrill Save @dc20willsave.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 16, 2026

    Film #247: Donkey Skin My #FilmChallenge2026 pick for July (A Foreign Language Musical). Almost surreal at times. Fairly beautiful, songs are a little samey, but overall had fun! #2026Films

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  • Gretagarbeige @gretagarbeige.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    She's a queer icon AND an important voice for the Feminist movement during her lifetime. Maybe try Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin ? (It's a musical/children's movie adapted from the fairytale, quite wonderful too)

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2026

    For #bales2026moviechallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky ... Have Colourful Costumes or Fashion Day 19 - Donkey Skin as remembered with a song in this list... of Three Love Songs from Fairytale Film Musicals weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/m...

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  • Deckard Holiday @deckardholiday.comBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    Movie: Donkey Skin (1970) Super pretty, colorful, fun, whimsical, silly as hell. Haven't given a movie a 9/10 in a long time but this deserved it!

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  • Plaza Atlanta @plazaatlanta.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2026

    Catherine Deneuve. Surreal costumes. A donkey that drops jewels. Jacques Demy’s colorful cult fairy tale Donkey Skin hits the big screen at the Plaza this week. Tickets: www.plazaatlanta.com/movie/donkey...

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  • Erin Snyder @erinlsnyder.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2026

    So, the 1970 French fairytale, Donkey Skin, turns into a very different movie in the last two minutes, and... Yeah, that's appropriate for the story being adapted. Well played, Demy. Well played. #filmsky

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2026

    For Day 14... #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge #Filmsky #Moviesky ... Forest scene... Donkey Skin, as found in this list of fairy tale movies weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/t...

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    For #Bales2025FilmChallenge catch up Day 14 Based on a folk tale... Donkey Skin with Catherine Deneuve and Jacques Perrin just one in this list... also includes Anora and Bluebeard.... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/t...

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  • The Craggus @thecraggus.comBluesky · Oct 25, 2025

    I feel like only the Polish poster for Donkey Skin (Peau d'âne) does the movie justice.

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  • Dan @danielorton.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    And Donkey Skin is his first film to have its own standalone continuity, being a Charles Perrault fairytale adaptation. However, it’s also the first of two films of his that homage Jean Cocteau (Lola being a Max Ophuls tribute!)

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  • Tony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    #bestfilminlondontoday Jun 1 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. Jacques Demy's musical PEAU D'ANE/DONKEY SKIN (1970) in 2025 Fashion Film Festival @riocinema.bsky.social capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/05/capi...

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  • il Secondo, Papa Emeritus @papaii.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    Film Club Friday (Night) Donkey Skin (1970) dir. Jacques Demy I believe I am on a Catherine Deneuve/Jacques Demy kick. What is happening in this one? Does it matter?

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  • Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema: Jacques Demy’s Donkey Skin, 1970

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  • Rashida @evilrashida.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2025

    Donkey Skin is such a pretty movie

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  • mad2001.bsky.social @mad2001.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2025

    TAGLINE: 'The skin of an animal hid her captivating beauty that only a prince could discover!' American movie poster for Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin artwork by Lee J. Reedy (1970).

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  • Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 5, 2024

    An incestuous king; a runaway princess. A blue kingdom; a red kingdom. Find out what the enchanting subversive film DONKEY SKIN reveals about the French in this week’s ep of cross-cultural podcast Garlic&Pearls 🇫🇷🇬🇧 @suzanneraine.bsky.social Spotify: spoti.fi/3NP81pL Apple: apple.co/48DjkuT

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  • Dukenfield @dukenfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2024

    Last night's #film was Jacques Demy's magical musical fantasy Peau d'âne / Donkey Skin (France, 1970) starring the wonderful Catherine Deneuve and the superb music of Michel Legrand letterboxd.com/film/donkey-...

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Mar 8, 2024

    For the record: it was an actual donkey skin that Catherine Deneuve wore in the film. It was obtained from a local slaughterhouse, cleaned and lined with fabric before shooting began #LaEsoterica #DonkeySkin #CatherineDeneuve

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