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.
The Red Shoes
Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!
1948 · 2h 13m · Approved
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
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The Red Shoes
Overview
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Director and cast
- Michael Powell Director
- Emeric Pressburger Director
- Anton Walbrook as Boris Lermontov
- Marius Goring as Julian Craster
- Moira Shearer as Victoria Page
- Robert Helpmann as Ivan Boleslawsky
- Léonide Massine as Grischa Ljubov
- Albert Bassermann as Sergei Ratov
- Ludmilla Tchérina as Irina Boronskaja
- Esmond Knight as Livy
- Jean Short as Terry
- Gordon Littmann as Ike
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The greatest film about ballet ever made.
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.
No wonder Britain, still rationed in color, food, and feeling in the wake of an exhausting war, could not cope with what the movie proposed. Catch it here now, and you will not just be seeing an old film made new; you will have your vision restored.
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.
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