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The Red Shoes

Dance she did, and dance she must…Between her two loves!

1948 · 2h 13m · Not Rated Drama, Romance
Directed by Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger

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A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

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98%
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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.

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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The greatest film about ballet ever made.

Melissa Anderson, L.A. Weekly
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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.

Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
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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.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh

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.

Tom Huddlestone, Time Out

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