Category: The Red Shoes

  • The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

    Absolutely gorgeous, tedious mix of ballet and film–the twenty minute ballet sequence is twenty of the most beautiful minutes ever on film–but it’s a dramatic wreck. The script has a version of the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale playing out in a ballet company as it stages the same fairy tale. Moira Shearer’s dancing is…