The Red Shoes (1948)
Country: GB
Technical: col 136m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann
Synopsis:
A talented composer and an ambitious ballet dancer both join the possessive impresario Boris Lermontov's ballet company, and do promising work together, but trouble looms when they fall for each other.
Review:
Inventive, daring ballet movie which rewards its great length in ways that have nothing to do with narrative. Technical departments - cinematography, music, costumes, art direction - spare no expense, while the acting and mise en scène as usual emphasize the emotional elements to the exclusion of any sense of anglo-saxon reserve. An amazingly ambitious prestige production in its day, it has lost none of its power to astound, and Jack Cardiff's closely watched (by Techncolor's Natalie Kalmus) experiments in the format skirt as close to heresy as he could possibly go.
Country: GB
Technical: col 136m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann
Synopsis:
A talented composer and an ambitious ballet dancer both join the possessive impresario Boris Lermontov's ballet company, and do promising work together, but trouble looms when they fall for each other.
Review:
Inventive, daring ballet movie which rewards its great length in ways that have nothing to do with narrative. Technical departments - cinematography, music, costumes, art direction - spare no expense, while the acting and mise en scène as usual emphasize the emotional elements to the exclusion of any sense of anglo-saxon reserve. An amazingly ambitious prestige production in its day, it has lost none of its power to astound, and Jack Cardiff's closely watched (by Techncolor's Natalie Kalmus) experiments in the format skirt as close to heresy as he could possibly go.
Country: GB
Technical: col 136m
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann
Synopsis:
A talented composer and an ambitious ballet dancer both join the possessive impresario Boris Lermontov's ballet company, and do promising work together, but trouble looms when they fall for each other.
Review:
Inventive, daring ballet movie which rewards its great length in ways that have nothing to do with narrative. Technical departments - cinematography, music, costumes, art direction - spare no expense, while the acting and mise en scène as usual emphasize the emotional elements to the exclusion of any sense of anglo-saxon reserve. An amazingly ambitious prestige production in its day, it has lost none of its power to astound, and Jack Cardiff's closely watched (by Techncolor's Natalie Kalmus) experiments in the format skirt as close to heresy as he could possibly go.