Donkey Skin

And finally, number four, Catherine Deneuve.

Considered one of the greatest European actresses on film, she gained acclaim for her collaborations with Jacques Demy, starring in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, and Donkeyskin.

She starred in Roman Polanski's Repulsion and Luis Bu- Buñuel's Belle de Jour.

Her blasphemy movie, The Brand New Testament, a whimsical fantasy where God lives as a petty, mean-spirited tyrant in Brussels until his young daughter hacks his computer and leaks everyone's predetermined death dates to the world.

The end.

For the purposes of this week's episode, I did not re-watch the 1977 motion picture New York, New York, because the film is not available to rent or stream at this time.

Why? Weird.

I thought about buying the 4K release, which was on sale for $30, but...

Did I rewatch Miss Minnelli's renditions of But the World Goes Round and Theme from New York, New York on YouTube? Yes.

Of course I did.

You have to show up for Eliza in some form or fashion, right? Crazy fact, John Kander advised Lin-Manuel Miranda to not watch the film as it had little to do with what they were developing for the stage.

Miranda only just watched the film in 2026, I believe, for the purposes of the Blank Check podcast.

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Since we're going to have to wait for next week's movie, the second part, to do the aliens question, which we'll give context to later, I just have to ask, is it...

That much of a crime to be a lover girl to deserve this much torment? Oh, that's

a good question.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I don't know.

Did you feel a lot of parallels with this movie and Obsession? Because I don't know if we've talked about Obsession, like, a lot, but...

i don't know yeah i don't know we'll

that little dress up that is very psycho as well.

There's another film as well, I haven't seen it but Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie which is meant to be like a very like clear influence on this film and also we were talking about donkey skin as well.

Has anyone seen donkey skin? One, one second.

Yeah, there is that thing about like, so Donkey Skin is like a 70s film with Catherine Deneuve that is like set up like a fairy tale.

And then Catherine Deneuve is the daughter of a king and the king's wife dies.

And so he goes, there's no one else as beautiful.

I just want to marry my daughter.

um and so the whole film was like her trying to like um trick him into not um marrying her basically by like covering herself in a donkey magical donkey skin um but the That doesn't sell that great, does it? But it's weird and wacky and worth a watch if you're into, like, renaissance fairy type fairy tales from the 70s.