‘Paranormal Activity’ Is a Killer Theatrical Experience
By ELYSA GARDNER
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A talking rose, a dress the color of time, a finger-slimming elixir, a sung recipe for a “cake d’amour”: Where else but in a film by Jacques Demy – French cinema’s supreme dreamer – could these chimerical objects be found? Now in a new 35-mm color restoration at Film Forum, “Donkey Skin” (1970), Demy’s sixth feature and his third film (and third musical) with Catherine Deneuve, is a gorgeous, nutty fantasia.
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|A talking rose, a dress the color of time, a finger-slimming elixir, a sung recipe for a “cake d’amour”: Where else but in a film by Jacques Demy – French cinema’s supreme dreamer – could these chimerical objects be found? Now in a new 35-mm color restoration at Film Forum, “Donkey Skin” (1970), Demy’s sixth feature and his third film (and third musical) with Catherine Deneuve, is a gorgeous, nutty fantasia.
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