The Red Shoes

azoulay

Il y a des moments cinématographiques qui semblent touchés par la grâce dans les Chaussons Rouges. Le plus fabuleux de tous c'est le moment du ballet,15 minutes de génie qui ont influençé loin devant l'art du spectacle.La m.e.s est magnifique de rigueur, les décors et les costumes à tomber par terre.Les couleurs vibrent dans le Technicolor d'un livre d'image qui raconte des histoires à relire cent fois.

ASHES IN THE HOURGLASS

The infamous ballet scene is perhaps the greatest piece of storytelling ever put on screen. It takes music, editing, and ballet, uses them in conjunction, and produces something much larger than any of them could accomplish individually. The only reason I don't include this among my all time favorites is due to the adequate, but not stellar, romance which holds the whole story just shy of cinematic transcendence.

Lynch/Fellini

The moment the film literally leaves the bounds of reality, entering into the world of the ballet, I knew I was looking at a masterpiece!

B_R_Wilhelm

One of the rare films that deal with ballet and the process behind creation of art, The Red Shoes is triumph of sight and sound, with fantastic performances across the board, the best of which comes from leading lady Moira Shearer.

tidal waif

Red shoes - the locus of clashing compulsions. Think Vic & Julian would fit in Barbican's expo on creative couples if fiction qualified? Gustav & Alma Mahler are featured, linked by comparable ignominy: Alma quit her musicianship to advocate her husband's. Memento Clara Schumann who crossed out lieds for liebe. To say woman is nature is spraying venom on a posy: nature blossoms mid pestilence & needn't make a Choice.

LauraPalmer

Rewatched and re-loved. One of my all-time favorite films. And this is one of the best scenes ever made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktv3-1JTspc

Richmond Hill

A quite stunning and rare bird, that triumphs on all levels: thematic and technical. The central cliche of the plucky ingenue is here transformed into a beautiful tradegy coloured and textured with the most wonderful and eccentric hues around notions of obsession, devotion and artistry. The Ballet of The Red Shoes alone is a masterpiece of expressionistic art if one recklessly ignored the superb structural story.

Zac Weber

Nearly incomparable in terms of its aesthetic vision, particularly the astounding choreography. I so desperately wanted to be in that diegetic theatre for the first performance of The Red Shoes. If you can see this Technicolor marvel in 35mm, you're in for a treat.