The Red Shoes

Little White Lies“Not yet reviewed”

The Telegraph“essential Christmas treat for film buffs everywhere...” Martin Scorsese oversaw the 2-year restoration process for this ecstatically received new print of one of British cinema’s great wonders, Powell and Pressburger’s hallucinatory masterpiece about dancing, death, and everything in between...

Variety“Not yet reviewed”

Total Film “Not yet reviewed”

Empire“Not yet reviewed”

The Times“Truly spectacular, and yet dull...” Emotionally, however, The Red Shoes is a bit of a drag. Time has not been kind to the story of an ambitious dancer (Moira Shearer) torn between love and career. The performances are declamatory, Shearer (a dancer) can barely act...

The Independent“Restored version of the incandescent Powell-Pressburger classic...” The story of a young ballet dancer who makes a fateful decision between love and art, it has a quicksilver grace and variation of mood unlike anything else you've seen...

Guardian“serious, sublimely innocent, yet deeply and mysteriously erotic...” Powell and Pressburger show how the surfaces of make-believe, the stage flats, the costumes, the sticky thin layers of pan makeup, are like the surface of Lewis Carroll's looking-glass...

Channel4 Film“The genius is in the detail...” Like other Powell and Pressburger movies it's whimsical at times, but undercut with a hard, almost cynical realism common to many fairytales. And, like 2001: A Space Odyssey, its visual effects, primitive as they are, stand the test of time...

Time Out film“The crowning glory of our national cinema...” Powell unleashes the most eyepopping visual extravaganza imaginable. Blending impressionist art and expressionist film, blurring the barriers between theatre and cinema, body and camera, reality and dream...