The Red Shoes
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Dance she did, and dance she must - between her two loves
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
| Released | 6 Sep 1948 |
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| Genres | Drama, Romance |
| Runtime | 2 hours, 13 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom |
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For me it’s always been one of the very greatest ever made, and every time I go back to look at it — about once a year — it’s new: it reveals another side, another level, and it goes deeper. … it’s beautiful, one of the most beautiful Technicolor films ever made … there’s no other picture that dramatizes and visualizes the overwhelming obsession of art, the way it can take over your life.
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I’m always thinking about the Powell and Pressburger films when I’m thinking about color, about creating worlds, and about how to tell a story as exuberantly as possible.
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It’s a must for anyone interested in the art of film. It always seems to me a work of true madness about a descent into madness.
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