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The Red Shoes (1948)
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
4 May 1906, East Sheen, Surrey, England, UK
17 January 1926, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
16 December 1922, Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
29 June 1896, London, England, UK
19 November 1896, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
26 July 1895, London, England, UK
21 July 1917, Lambeth, London, England, UK
9 January 1913, London, England, UK
10 September 1923, Windhoek, Namibia
28 October 1914, Marylebone, London, England, UK
20 April 1924, Tottenham, London, England, UK
1921, London, England, UK
7 September 1867, Mannheim, Germany
8 October 1897, Belfast, Ireland
15 October 1913, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
10 May 1906, France
27 August 1890, France
27 June 1922, Kingston upon Thames, England, UK
25 March 1920, Mill Hill, London, England, UK
9 April 1909, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
2 December 1917, Paris, France
23 May 1912, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK
19 December 1913, Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
March 09, 2015
Moira Shearer has a fragile loveliness and a freshness wholly lacking in almost all the stars of today -- she gives a most appealing performance.
March 09, 2015
To isolate any one element of The Red Shoes is to miss its unique ability to convey a kind of total effect similar to that brought about by dream, or music, or memory.
April 23, 2013
It's marvelously acted, superbly written, and features outstanding choreography , unforgettable characters and hauntingly beautiful cinematography. It's a cinematic treat for movie lovers! Bon appetit!
December 11, 2009
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.
March 09, 2015
Incorporating echoes of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale that gives the film its name, Powell and Pressburger include visionary flashes of surrealism and magic realism.
March 09, 2015
A lingering, calf-eyed look at backstage ballet's little world of overworked egos and underdone glands.
May 02, 2017
...takes art very seriously-as a matter of life and death, in fact...
March 09, 2015
These faults, if faults they be, may well be outweighed by the beauty of the ballet sequences and music, by the skill with which Mr Powell always uses colour, and by Miss Shearer's endearing charm.
March 02, 2010
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.
May 13, 2010
The greatest film about ballet ever made.
