The Red Shoes (Michael Sporn, 1990)
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"How much more master?" She was exhausted.
Her parents had paid a fortune to get her into the ballet school, but this trainer had her practising her en pointe for hours, outside and in full dress.
Still, she had a large audience.
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Ashley Shaw as Victoria Page in Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
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Ballet in Horror Pt. II: Mirrors, reflections, and doppelgängers
Possession (1981) | Us (2019) | Black Swan (2010) | Perfect Blue (1997) | Suspiria (1977) | The Red Shoes (1948)
Repression, obsession, perfection, abuse, self & identity, gender...
One of the most underrated elements of POSSESSION (1981) is how the use of ballet in the film actually relates to its many themes— which are themes that can be traced across other films that depict ballerinas (or other types of performers in the case of Perfect Blue—it just fit too well to not include)
Read my article Blood-stained Satin: A Reflection on the Aesthetics of Ballet in Horror on Beauty of Horror
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Why do you want to dance?
Why do you want to live?
Well, I don’t know exactly why… but I must.
That’s my answer, too.
The Red Shoes (1948)
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I knew I had to draw a piece about this film the moment I was done watching it, it's so wonderfully striking ❣
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If she was going to make it up those stairs, she'd need to re-tie her heels.
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