The Red Shoes - Pamela Hutchinson (BFI Film Classics) Television Agnes Varda short and more

Agnes Varda short and more

snow-swept frontier

When two unemployed friends

She explores the masterful use of visual language to create an elegiac work

The Red Shoes - Pamela Hutchinson (BFI Film Classics) Television Agnes Varda short and more'The Red Shoes' by Pamela Hutchinson (BFI Film Classics paperback 112 pages) Pamela Hutchinson's study of 'The Red Shoes' examines its breathtaking use of Technicolour, music, choreography, editing and art direction at the zenith of Powell and Pressburger's capacity for 'composed cinema'. Through a close reading of key scenes, particularly the film's famous extended ballet sequence, she considers the unconventional use of ballet as uncanny spectacle