The Red Shoes
1948 | Drama | UK | Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Overview
The ballet film to end all ballet films: a young dancer torn between love and art, an impresario who demands everything, and a fifteen minute ballet that explodes into pure cinema. Jack Cardiff Technicolor glows like moving paint. Martin Scorsese champions it and generations of dancers cite it as truth. Art as a religion that devours its faithful.
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