The Red Shoes

Event Details

Powell + Pressburger » The Red Shoes

Date

Sunday 10th December 2023

Time

3:00pm

Venue

The Silver Screen Cinema

Type

Film Season

Cert.

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We finish our series of Sunday matinees at Silver Screen with Powell and Pressburger’s Oscar-winning classic fantasy melodrama. A young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art when her magic shoes compel her to dance. Spellbinding, disturbing, breathtaking!

This film will have a short introduction and is screening as part of the Powell + Pressburger film season taking place from October to December across venues in Folkestone.  Find out more at PPFolkestone.co.uk.

The Red Shoes

"Between her art ... and her dreams ... was her heart."

• Directed by

  Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

• Starring

  Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer

• Genre

  Drama, Music, Romance

• Details

  UK • 1948 • 135 mins

• Certificate

  PG

In her pursuit to become a prima ballerina, young ballet dancer Victoria Page is torn between the man she loves and the demands of her art. Cast as the lead in the Ballet of the Red Shoes, she falls in love with the young composer but is then driven to breaking point by Russian impresario Boris Lermontov, who has become obsessed with her

Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger

Taking place from October – December 2023, Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger is a UK-wide film celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships in the history of cinema: Michael Powell (1905 to 1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902 to 1988), best known for iconic films including The Red Shoes (1948), A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Black Narcissus

Powell + Pressburger is showing at the Silver Screen Cinema with support of the BFI, awarding funds from The National Lottery.