The Red Shoes, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, has achieved iconic status as the ultimate ballet film and as a work about creativity and desire.
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The Red Shoes, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, has achieved iconic status as the ultimate ballet film and as a work about creativity and desire.
Unlike Black Swan, The Red Shoes actually shows us the toll a “normal” life takes on those that have tasted perfection.
The technical choices and montage sequences of ballet scenes in both films show how the dancers slowly lose themselves or their minds while ...
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The story follows Victoria Page, an aspiring ballerina who auditions for a world-renowned Ballet company. The director at one point asks Victoria why she wants ...
Ballet shoes and young ballerinas have an intertwined physicality that is intriguing; and that is, if we're being honest, centred in pain.
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Few dance films can compare to The Red Shoes in terms of attention to detail and realism. Rather than focusing upon the glamour of the ...