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Film · 1948 · Romantic drama
The Red Shoes
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948
United Kingdom
★ 8.0 editorial score
Scorsese has been watching it since childhood and has never stopped: Powell and Pressburger put a ballet on screen in Technicolor so saturated that it plays like a fever.
“Here, in this unrestricted romance, is a visual and emotional comprehension of all the grace and rhythm and power of the ballet. Here is the color and the excitement, the strange intoxication of the dancer's life. And here is the rapture and the heartbreak which only the passionate and the devoted can know.”
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1948Depicts 1940s
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