Shall we dance ?

They are playing The Red Shoes tonight on tv !!!

It's your typical Holiday tv reruns (just like Gone With the Wind or the Sissi series starring young Romy Schneider!) and I've seen it at least 5 times already (the last time it was years ago)but I sooooooo love that movie!

I've always thought that Joss Whedon made a wink at The Red Shoes in Once More With Feeling, especially with the man who can't stop tap-dancing until he burns up.

Who is the little girl who hasn't wanted to be Moira Shearer as Vicky Page once in their life? And I've always loved Hans Christian Andersen's sad tales and I love the ballet in the middle of the film...that works like a mirror within the movie. A beautiful mise en abîme! And all the connections to Russian stories or RL dancers are neat(Ana Karenina, the relationship betewen Dyagilev and Nizhinskii etc). The romance isn't really the core of the film and I've never liked Julian Craster so I couldn't understand Vicky's final choice. Boris Lermontov is definitely the most interesting character of the movie.

Fic recommendation

2 recommendations; It's Giles/Ethan and it's NC-17, so if you are into that 'ship, or simply interested in slash, or simply curious about why I like them together, this is for you.

First off mydeira  's WIP that I meant to recommend for a long time, especially that part, but the rest is here:  Why The Fire Should Die

Secondly, a fic about Rupert's and Ethan's youth...Be warned it's quite dark, so wrong and so right at the same time by glossing, Widening Gyres that I've just read.

 

Now I'm going to watch The Red Shoes and dance in front of the television, but nobody will see it!