Film screening: The Rules of the Game and The Red Shoes

What it is

At the cusp of the second world war, the film explores the corruption of the French bourgeoisie. The film set in a country hunting chateau explores ugly truths of its members. The film was subjected to cuts after its 1939 release and its original negatives were destroyed during WWII.

The film was reconstructed during 1959 and we present the reconstructed film. The second screening of the evening is a film by Powell & Pressburger, the life of a dancer— played by a rising star of the Sadlers Wells Ballet, Moira Shearer—and a young composer, played by the versatile Marius Goring. We enter the charmed circle of an international ballet company which embodies the artistic legend of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes.