movie poster for THE RED SHOES

Flicks ID

5256

Cert

U

Running time

153 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

THE RED SHOES (1948)

MICHAEL POWELLEMERIC PRESSBURGER

Plot

An expressionistic look at the ballet world focusing on the rigid relationship between artist and teacher until a young composer brings the ballerina back to reality. Ground-breaking at the time in its use of colour and movement and made more intriguing by its real-life model of Nijinsky/Diaghilev.