The Red Shoes (1948) part 1/13

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Film & Animation

[IlkaZapata]

All critics, when reviewing "Black Swan" (2010), include references to this movie, so I have to watch it.

[MStrat1106]

The only real difference between the two movies is that "Red Shoes" is about dance obsession, and "Black Swan" is just plain obsession: nobody asks Natalie Portman, "Why do you dance?" Her sense of competition and rivalry destroys her; here, the heroine is destroyed by her own need to dance vs. the roles society imposes upon her (you can't be a wife and mother AND a great artist, etc.). Moira Shearer HAS to dance; Natalie just hates.

[rudafer69]

This movie reminds me of my friend, David Bruer.(R.I.P.) I used to think it was a bit soft of him to recommend a fairy tail, and I watched it with him at his insistence. Since, I have seen it about 4 times. It still stuns me every time. 

[sshuisken]

Black Swan doesn't even compare with this film. The Red Shoes maintains its beauty and elegance from start to finish. Black Swan started off great (that dream sequence was absolutely gorgeous) and ended just as well, but the middle was pure, shameless camp. And secondly, they are well out of each other's genre. Black Swan, besides the fact that it is about dancing, has much more in common with Roman Polanski's Repulsion or The Tenant than The Red Shoes.

[lgw1802]

Ballerinas (and I am not one) love this movie--- I am thinking one is saving your life and your soul, though you do not know it, the other choice...was not right

[honeyrabbit93]

LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie watched it with my mum since i was a little girl....and still watching it now :) great movie

[ishmyl99]

This film is pure magnificence. A lover's paean to the obsessive drive of artistic creation & power. A relentless, all-consuming fire fueled by gods fiendish & divine. Powell & Pressburger understood that drive, and conveyed it through the inimitable glory of cinema (and with the brilliant contributions of their collaborators). Ballet is but the platform for this film's greater allegory. And what a magical, ethereal platform it is. In the magic of P&P's hands, an unrivaled masterpiece.