The Red Shoes, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, has achieved iconic status as the ultimate ballet film and as a work about creativity and desire.
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Unlike Black Swan, The Red Shoes actually shows us the toll a “normal” life takes on those that have tasted perfection.
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The technical choices and montage sequences of ballet scenes in both films show how the dancers slowly lose themselves or their minds while ...
Unlike Black Swan, however, The Red Shoes starred a real life ballerina. Moira Shearer, then a leading dancer with Sadler's Wells Ballet ...
The story follows Victoria Page, an aspiring ballerina who auditions for a world-renowned Ballet company. The director at one point asks Victoria why she wants ...
The idea of loss is central to “The Red Shoes,” the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen that lends its plot to both the film and the ...
“Black Swan” has roughly the same story. Like Vicky, Nina (Natalie Portman) lives for ballet alone. Like Vicky, she has a despotic ballet master ...
Actual ballet dancers think that the film 'Black Swan' is a film, and as such, a fantasy. The actual dance scenes are fairly realistic, but the ...
The film that pushed The Red Shoes into darker territory, Black Swan, is a psychologically complex chef d'oeuvre that requires repeat viewings.
Few dance films can compare to The Red Shoes in terms of attention to detail and realism. Rather than focusing upon the glamour of the ...