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The Red Shoes

  • Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

  • UK, 1948, English, 135mins, DCP

  • Cast: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring

Never on screen had Technicolor so expressively and mesmerisingly synthesised into the tormented soul of a human being – a budding ballerina who finds herself torn between a lovelorn composer and an overpowering impresario. Voluptuous in its visual beauty and heartfelt in its storytelling, it transforms the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about enchanted shoes into a captivating parable of the destructive demands made by art upon the artist. The ballet sequence that morphs a stage performance into a darkly surreal dramatisation of spiritual turbulence stands as a cinematic miracle of film history – and one that allured the then 9-yearold Martin Scorsese into filmmaking.

Academy Awards: Best Original Score and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.