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A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. (NR, 133 min.)
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This Powell And Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made and winner of two Oscars. It focuses on Vicky, a young ballerina starring in a ballet The Red Shoes. Like her character in the ballet, she is irresistibly drawn to dancing. Her life becomes split between her simple human passion and artistic devotion to her profession. The film contains ballet sequences of stylistic mastery, and is visually one of the most innovative and beautiful works of cinema ever created. [Park Circus]
The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection. Featuring outstanding performances, blazingly beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Oscar-winning sets and music, and an unforgettable, hallucinatory central dance sequence, this beloved classic, dazzlingly restored, stands as an enthralling tribute to the life of the artist.
The Red Shoes was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with the BFI, The Film Foundation, ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., and Janus Films. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation, and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation. [Criterion]
Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
Director(s): Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Genre: Drama, Romance, Dance
"One of the most beautiful films ever made."
— Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
"The greatest film about ballet ever made."
— Melissa Anderson, L.A. Weekly
"Profoundly serious, sublimely innocent, yet deeply and mysteriously erotic."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"It has a quicksilver grace and variation of mood unlike anything else you've seen."
— Anthony Quinn, Independent (UK)
"The Red Shoes is artistically perfect, but it asks us to acknowledge the human cost."
— Kevin Maher, Times (UK)
"The film is voluptuous in its beauty and passionate in its storytelling. You don't watch it, you bathe in it."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"The three principal dancers, Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann, are beyond criticism."
— Variety Staff, Variety
"The Red Shoes showed me I could transcend who I was born as and become who I knew I was supposed to be."
— Sara Michelle Fetters, MovieFreak.com
"Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ode to the agony and the ecstasy of dancing is still joyous and moving even if you watch it through filthy, cracked sunglasses."
— David Fear, Time Out
"The Red Shoes was shot in three-strip Technicolor, a process that's no longer used because of expense and technical complexity, but one that yielded some of the most spectacular images in cinema history."
— Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
"A look beneath its lushly romantic surface reveals a dark, complex sensibility, and that surface, rendered in the somber tones of British Technicolor, reflects a fantastically rich cinematic inventiveness."
— Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
"Wrapped up with gorgeous sparkly colour, off-the-beaten-track classical music selections, and a sinister edge that perfectly catches the ambiguity of traditional as opposed to Disney fairy tales, this remains a luminous masterpiece."
— David Parkinson, Empire Magazine
