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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 180104" data-attributes="member: 22"><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/66/67/4e6667d2483bf5f8447e56b8d4536b71.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Red Shoes (1948)It's one of those films I'd never seen but always knew I should see -- it's Martin Scorsese's favourite movie and Kate Bush named an album after it -- but, you know, it's about boring old ballet and I knew there was a really long dance sequence in it, so I wasn't in any hurry. But, surprise surprise, it's as brilliant as everyone says it is. The ballet stuff is not at all stiff and theatrical; it's really, really cinematic and almost psychedelic, which is quite remarkable given the 60s hadn't even happened yet. The whole film is beautiful to look at, so rich and vivid and colourful -- you want to pause almost every shot and hang it on your wall -- and the story is romantic and tragic and timeless: it feels earthy and otherworldly all at the same time.<img src="https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2469753.1450353240!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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