margotfonteyns:“Michael and I have made several good films, among them several better films than The
margotfonteyns:“Michael and I have made several good films, among them several better films than The Red Shoes. Why then is The Red Shoes by far the best known film that we have made? Those who try to see it with magnifying glasses (like most critics) see only the rough, the crude, the immature bits (especially the last sequence between Vicky and Julian in her dressing room). But audiences understand better; they inhale mechanically the air of the whole thing and find something disturbing, something mysterious, almost–dare I say–religious, something which they feel must be true, without having been told what.” – Emeric Pressburger -- source link