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The Red Shoes (U)
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This event was last at Norden Farm more than a year ago, in April 2006.
Dir: Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK 1948, 128 mins
One of Powell and Pressburger's best-loved films, this is perhaps the definitive ballet movie.
Vicky (Moira Shearer) is torn apart by the competing demands of art - represented by the tyrannical, Svengali-like ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) - and love - the talented young composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) who she marries. Finally she is driven - apparently by the shoes - to suicide.
The Red Shoes ballet (inspired by Hans Christian Andersen) which forms its centrepiece is the most dazzling flight of fantasy in Powell's career, and scarcely matched in British cinema.
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