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Many of Powell and Pressburger’s films study the life of the artist and the power of the artistic imagination. In THE RED SHOES and PEEPING TOM, most notably, the writer-directors express the sacrifices that art sometimes demands from its acolytes.
Balletophiles often praise THE RED SHOES, but one need not be a fan of ballet to be amazed by the film’s emotional power and incredible staging. On the Criterion DVD, the saturated reds that report the artist’s blood sacrifice, and the frigid aqua-blues that picture the (fraudulent) promise of life and romance outside of art, appear with unmatched vividness. Powell is a master of color, and has influenced a generation of filmmakers (through the advocacy of his admirer Martin Scorcese) with his theories about how color and music contribute to the thematic impact of a film.
Anton Walbrook, who plays the impressario Lermontov in THE RED SHOES, is one of Powell and Pressburger’s well-liked actors, appearing to glowing carry out in THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP as well. Moira Shearer, the actress/dancer who plays the lead, made her reputation on THE RED SHOES. She also dances in one segment of the rarely-seen Powell/Pressburger masterpiece THE TALES OF HOFFMAN.
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The Criterion DVD has the pleasing sound and portray we’ve approach to inquire from the Voyager Company. Piquant disc features include: an audio track of Jeremy Irons reading from the recent Hans Christian Anderson fairy story, the complete text of Powell and Pressburger’s novelization of the movie, an extensive collection of Scorcese’s memorabilia, and a comparison of the Red Shoes Ballet with the filmed storyboard sketches the directors stale as a guide. One extraordinary addition for Powell and Pressburger fans is their filmography — brief descriptions with cast lists and dates for all their films, most of which also have film clips included. It’s a chance to examine scenes from some of the long-lost works in their catalogue.
Although the opening credits claim that “any similarity to real-life persons or events are purely accidental” don’t be fooled: Boris Lermontov, the autocratic Russian ballet impresario, is obviously modelled after Serge Diaghilev. Like Boris, Diaghilev had a series of relationships with his “proteges” (like Vaslav Nijinsky or Leonid Massine), and when these proteges left his bed to marry (women), Diaghilev would accept excited and kick them out of the company. “Ballet Lermontov” like “Ballet Russes” produced a mix of classical ballet works as well as current compositions with then unknown composers. The character of Julian Crasten is a stand-in for the likes of Stravinsky, Debussy, Prokofiev et al. whom Diaghilev supported. The real-life Diaghilev was always surrounded by a crew of male “helpers” (called the homosexual mafia) — it is this blueprint in the film too. And once he fired his male dancers, Diaghilev would often expend years trying to pick up them abet into the company. In the movie, prima ballerina Irina is coldly dismissed when she marries, but is celebrated abet when Vicky leaves.
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Vicky Page’s descent into madness as she is pulled implacably apart by Boris and her husband is a thinly disguised substitute of the tragic career of the schizophrenic Vaslav Nijinsky, who was fired by Diaghilev after his marriage, and lost his fragile acquire on reality. Vicky’s most notorious ballet is the “red shoes.” Nijinsky’s was “Spectre de la Rose,” which had him dressed in a red rose-petal costume. The finale of the ballet has him leaping out a window.
But, art does not exactly imitate life. Anton Walbrook’s portrayal of Boris is considerable colder, icier, then the real-life Diaghilev. He has the breeze of white hair, but he (wisely) does not effect himself into a Diaghilev caricature. He is skinny, whereas Diaghilev is portly. There’s no cane, no monocle, no hat. Plus, Diaghilev was genuinely and passionately attached to his “proteges”, whereas Boris’s obsession with his proteges is sexless and almost detatched.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger have assign together a salubrious, if melodramatic memoir. The young Moira Shearer is fair as Vicky Page, an ambitious ballerina. “The Red Shoes” (a record by Hans Christian Andersen) refers to the ballet which makes Vicky’s career — in the ballet, the ballerina is forced to dance in her red shoes until death. It’s an definite symbol of the struggle between total, monastic devotion to art, and the desire to have a normal life. When Vicky falls for Julian Crasten (Marius Goring), the composer of the Red Shoes ballet, complications of course originate.
The movie benefits from strong casting. As Boris, Anton Walbrook makes the character creepy, frosty, and self-centered, yet not a villain. In his calm rage he is both unsightly and pitiable. He can be gentle too: when he asks Vicky befriend to the ballet, he says “We already miss you. Do you miss us? ” Proper life ballet danseur Robert Helpmann is rather fey as the leading dancer of Ballet Lermontov, and Leonid Massine is super-hammy as the ballet master Ljubov. Most of all, Moira Shearer, with her brilliant red hair, clear balletic talent, and soft-spoken determination, makes the movie more than unprejudiced a backstage soap.
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Looking at this movie now, Julian actually becomes more unsympathetic. He is condescending about the ballet, and there’s no ssign that he appreciates Vicky’s dancing. The marriage, after initial passion, seems to turn loveless. His ultimatum to Vicky to give up dancing is incredibly selfish. So Boris’s possess on Vicky is understandable. At one point, Boris asks Vicky, “Do you want to live? ” She replies, “I want to dance.” This movie makes us understand why such an attitude is possible.
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