Since its release in 1948 The Red Shoes" has come to be regarded not only as a British classic & as perhaps the most widely loved of all of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger collaborations but as a highlight of world cinema. Its fantastic
- & indeed fantastical
- mixture of dance music colour & light has inspired audiences across the decades. The first comprehensive study of the film that marks the pinnacle of the directors remarkable relationship Connellys book offers fresh insights into this intriguing & beguiling work & into the characters at the heart of the story: the Svengali-like impresario & his obsession the ingenue dancer embodied by the brilliant Moira Shearer. According to many accounts the most successful British film ever made it is fitting that " The Red Shoes" should be celebrated in 2005 the centenary of Powells birth."