Une équipe d’archéologues fouillent là où Jacques Demy a tourné plusieurs scènes de son film Peau d’Âne : la cabane où Catherine Deneuve se réfugie, la clairière où Delphine Seyrig la reçoit… Dès que l’on gratte le sol, perles, clous, paillettes et autres fragments apparaissent. En suivant ces fouilles, Peau d’Âme approche la magie de Jacques Demy, le charme du texte de Charles Perrault, la tradition orale des contes. Qu’est-ce que cette histoire continue de fouiller en nous ?
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Archaeologist Olivier Weller and his team decided to conduct a dig at one of the locations where Jacques Demy shot several scenes from his film Donkeyskin (Peau d'Âne) : the cabin where Catherine Deneuve hides out, the clearing where Delphine Seyrig welcomes her goddaughter,... Sets and props are long gone but pearl-beads, nails, sequins and other traces are revealed at the first tentative scrapings of the surface.Following that survey, Skin Deep Fairytale tries to approach the magic of film-maker Jacques Demy's work, the charm of Charles Perrault's text, the tale's power of fascination, whose origins go back to oral tradition. Are we researching the story, or is it reserching us? The quest of our film archaeologist goes much farther and deeper that he would have imagined himself.
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