The Red Shoes
Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!
Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!
Drama, Romance
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1948
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A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
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Runtime:
133 min
Release date:
6 Sep 1948
Country:
GB
Languages:
Russian, English, French
Budget:
$500,000
Revenue:
$10,000,000
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. 5 wins & 5 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
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,
23 Oct 2010
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The greatest film about ballet ever made.
– Melissa Anderson,
L.A. Weekly,
13 May 2010
fresh:
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.
– Jonathan F. Richards,
Film.com,
2 Mar 2010
fresh:
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.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
1 Feb 2010
fresh:
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.
– Tom Huddlestone,
Time Out,
11 Dec 2009