The Red Shoes (1948)
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
5 December 1902, Miskolc, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
4 May 1906, East Sheen, Surrey, England, UK
June 3, 1898 in Poplar, London, England, UK
1924, Wellington, New Zealand
10 May 1906, France
25 March 1920, Mill Hill, London, England, UK
9 August 1896, Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
7 September 1867, Mannheim, Germany
9 January 1913, London, England, UK
13 May 1913, St. Helen's, England, UK
15 October 1913, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
10 September 1923, Windhoek, Namibia
19 November 1896, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
6 November 1915, Belgium
26 March 1920, London, England, UK
21 July 1917, Lambeth, London, England, UK
27 August 1890, France
20 February 1888, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
8 March 1930, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
19 December 1913, Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
27 June 1922, Kingston upon Thames, 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.
May 13, 2010
The greatest film about ballet ever made.
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.
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!
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.
March 09, 2015
A lingering, calf-eyed look at backstage ballet's little world of overworked egos and underdone glands.
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.
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.
May 02, 2017
...takes art very seriously-as a matter of life and death, in fact...
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.
