Saturday, January 12, 2008

The Red Shoes (1948)

The Red Shoes is probably one of the hardest films I've ever made my self sit through for this project. The story of a ballet says that a pair of shoes can make a person dance well, however, at the end, the woman who wears the shoes dies. The production company decides to do the ballet, complete with red shoes... and life imitates art. 

The film is long, dreary and wholly depressing. When I heard young girls saw the film as some sort of aspirational goal, I was shocked. Its a very hard film, but the actual ballet section is good.

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