Shall we dance ?

[chani]

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.

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I loved the red shoes! It was my favourite Sunday afternoon film when there used to be only a few channels to choose from on UK TV!! I'd sit with my best friend (who lived down the road from me) and we'd drink coffee and dunk digestive biscuits and watch the film!

Happy days!

[so-sharlemaine.livejournal.com]

Oh, The Red Shoes! The first movie I ever loved. It's like seeing an old friend.

I don't think it's showing here. I have it on VHS, but my VCR is so close to dead, it barely turns on anymore. I really should get a new one because I'm not getting rid of my movies on tape. I just can't. It would at least a hundred or so.

[comava.livejournal.com]

Ahh, the Sissi series... it's always time for that around Christmas!

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

I never quite understood the end of that movie. The Hans Christian Andersen story was more clear cut! Was her leap intentional? I guess if she chose Julian it was, as it was her the only way she could be with him if only in her death.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you in 2 hours but if I recall well, it was intentional (hence my hint to Ana Karenina). She couldn't choose between Julian and her art, so she chose death. She couldn't live without dancing but she couldn't choose dance over love...I don't think he was worth the sacrifice.

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Poor guy... doesn't get the FrenChani Seal of Approval.... maybe he was gay in RL!?

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Dunno, but Boris Lermontov obviously was, and I'm prone to sympathize with him!