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The Red Shoes (1948)
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
19 November 1896, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
7 September 1867, Mannheim, Germany
4 May 1906, East Sheen, Surrey, England, UK
16 February 1907, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
19 December 1913, Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
6 November 1915, Belgium
27 August 1890, France
1922, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
16 December 1922, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
29 June 1896, London, England, UK
20 October 1911, London, England, UK
March 09, 2015
To isolate any one element of The Red Shoes is to miss its unique ability to convey a kind of total effect similar to that brought about by dream, or music, or memory.
March 09, 2015
Moira Shearer has a fragile loveliness and a freshness wholly lacking in almost all the stars of today -- she gives a most appealing performance.
March 02, 2010
The shoes have never been redder. The color of passion that drenches the Technicolor world of The Red Shoes has been restored to its original luster.
May 02, 2017
...takes art very seriously-as a matter of life and death, in fact...
May 13, 2010
The greatest film about ballet ever made.
March 09, 2015
These faults, if faults they be, may well be outweighed by the beauty of the ballet sequences and music, by the skill with which Mr Powell always uses colour, and by Miss Shearer's endearing charm.
December 11, 2009
Blending impressionist art and expressionist film, blurring the barriers between theatre and cinema, body and camera, reality and dream, drawing equally on the avant-garde and the classical.
March 09, 2015
Incorporating echoes of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale that gives the film its name, Powell and Pressburger include visionary flashes of surrealism and magic realism.
March 09, 2015
A lingering, calf-eyed look at backstage ballet's little world of overworked egos and underdone glands.
April 23, 2013
It's marvelously acted, superbly written, and features outstanding choreography , unforgettable characters and hauntingly beautiful cinematography. It's a cinematic treat for movie lovers! Bon appetit!
