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The Red Shoes Theatrical Version + DVD Version DTS
The Red Shoes Theatrical Version + DVD Version DTS DVD Region 3
(4)Our Price: US$30.99List: US$37.99Save: US$7.00 (18%)Related promotions:1 people found the following helpful
November 7, 2005 What Happened to the Subtitles??My subtitles disappeared towards the end of the movie. Did this happen to anyone else! Dang.. that was annoying!
Overall, the film will be remembered more for its arty, eye candy, spit-shined polished photography and direction than it will its narrative. Film school directing buffs will have a heyday collecting shots and sequences that they can pinch for their 4th year final film. Budding screenwriters won't have it so lucky. Issues of plotting and story become a wee bit uninvolving and out of focus in reel two - plot point one is the woman inviting her interior decorator to dinner for what is the beginning of a relationship. Ahhh I'm no Robert Towne, but something a little deeper, heavier and more forebodding could have been written for the entrance into reel two, especially in a film that lovingly boasts scenes of girls legs being amputated whilst in cotton-candy colored pumps.
But that's knit picking. OK.. A Tale of Two Sisters this is definitely not, at least in terms of narrative, but is it worth the $$$$ layout? Quite so. From a fans standpoint, the acting is fine, and the many scenes of dramatic conflict between the leads generally well-handled and real. And speaking of which, let's hear it for the first-ever mother vs young kid daughter sprawling catfight.
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