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The Red Shoes
Directed by
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
Not Rated
1948
2h 13m
Drama
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Romance
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8.1
98%
91%
8.0
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A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
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Cast of The Red Shoes
Anton Walbrook
Boris Lermontov
Marius Goring
Julian Craster
Moira Shearer
Victoria Page
Robert Helpmann
Ivan Boleslawsky
Léonide Massine
Grischa Ljubov
Albert Bassermann
Sergei Ratov
Ludmilla Tchérina
Irina Boronskaja
Esmond Knight
Livy
Jean Short
Terry
Gordon Littmann
Ike
Julia Lang
A Balletomane
Bill Shine
Her Mate
Austin Trevor
Prof. Palmer
Eric Berry
Dimitri
Irene Browne
Lady Neston
Jerry Verno
Stage-Door Keeper
Derek Elphinstone
Lord Oldham
Marie Rambert
Marie Rambert
Joy Rawlins
Gwladys - Vicky's friend
Marcel Poncin
M. Boudin
The Red Shoes Ratings & Reviews
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The Red Shoes showed me I could transcend who I was born as and become who I knew I was supposed to be.
PopMatters
Michael Barrett
Andersen himself achieved a dizzying worldwide success by pouring out his anguish in charming characters and, if we are to believe what we hear, it didn't free him from his unhappy isolation.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Even the most cynical viewer cannot help but find themselves dazzled by the beauty of the production and the haunting nature of the narrative
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
One of the premier films to ever examine the personal sacrifices an individual must make to excel at their art.
The Blu Spot
Jeff Beck
The Red Shoes stands out as a remarkable artistic experience, made even more memorable by the layers of art that went into telling this portrait of artists in pursuit of their passions.
Modern Screen
Christopher Kane
The picture's two and a half hours long, contains a full-length ballet, exquisite Technicolor, and superb performances by everyone concerned, including the great dancer Leonide Massine.
The MacGuffin
Allen Almachar
It is one of the great films about creating art ... I couldn't bear the thought of never seeing it again.
Austin American-Statesman
Dudley Early
On the whole, it is a fine motion picture, missing greatness through too many defects. However, the Ballet of the Red Shoes, is one of the finest sequences ever shown on any screen, anywhere.
Filmsite
Tim Dirks
The Red Shoes (1948, UK) is a beautiful and sensitive post-war film - the 10th collaboration from the masterful and respected British directing/producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger...
Boulder Weekly
Michael J. Casey
With every viewing, it deepens, excites, elicits and emotes.
TIME Magazine
A lingering, calf-eyed look at backstage ballet's little world of overworked egos and underdone glands.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
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.
L.A. Weekly
Melissa Anderson
The greatest film about ballet ever made.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
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.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
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.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
One of the most beautiful films ever made.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
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.
Variety
Variety Staff
The three principal dancers, Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine and Robert Helpmann, are beyond criticism.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film is voluptuous in its beauty and passionate in its storytelling. You don't watch it, you bathe in it.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
We must be contented with repeating that The Red Shoes is one you must see.
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