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The Red Shoes (1948)
Description
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Actors:
Jane Fischer,
Albert Bassermann,
Joy Rawlins,
Derek Elphinstone,
Tommy Linden,
Hay Petrie,
Robert Helpmann
Jane Fischer
8 March 1930, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Albert Bassermann
7 September 1867, Mannheim, Germany
Joy Rawlins
Derek Elphinstone
15 October 1913, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Tommy Linden
Hay Petrie
16 July 1895, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
Robert Helpmann
9 April 1909, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
Director:
Michael Powell ,
Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell
30 September 1905, Bekesbourne, Kent, England, UK
Emeric Pressburger
5 December 1902, Miskolc, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Anton Walbrook #Emeric Pressburger #Marius Goring #Michael Powell #Moira Shearer #The Red Shoes
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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 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.
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
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
A lingering, calf-eyed look at backstage ballet's little world of overworked egos and underdone glands.
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.
May 02, 2017
...takes art very seriously-as a matter of life and death, in fact...
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!
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.