The film obeys its own rules, but they work wonderfully.
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10/24/07
The Red Shoes (1948)
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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 21 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Synopsis: Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made together aimed it's barb at complacency and tackled a new creative challenge. They intended for this story, of a ballerina's life backstage, to turn into... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Robert Helpmann, Marius Goring, Austin Trevor
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Story: Hans Christian Andersen
Screenwriter: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter
Composer: Brian Easdale
Producer: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Story: Hans Christian Andersen
Screenwriter: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter
Composer: Brian Easdale
Producer: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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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.
10/24/07
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In texture, it's like nothing the British cinema had ever seen: a rhapsody of colour expressionism, reaching delirious heights in the ballet scenes, but never becoming too brash and smothering its own nuances.
06/24/06
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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.
10/24/07
The three principal dancers, Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann, are beyond criticism.
10/24/07
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A masterpiece from first frame to last, this is easily the most emotionally touching and artistically brilliant ballet melodrama ever made (don't even mention The Turning Point), whose stature grows as time goes by.
04/05/07
The film is voluptuous in its beauty and passionate in its storytelling. You don't watch it, you bathe in it.
01/20/06
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The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger direct and write one of the great ballet melodramas of all time.
02/19/04
We must be contented with repeating that The Red Shoes is one you must see.
05/20/03
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