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The Tales of Hoffmann
+ intro by Andrew Moor, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dazzling, one-of-a-kind feast of music, dance, costume and cinema.
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Directors
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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With
Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Pamela Brown
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UK 1951. 128min
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Digital
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Certificate
U
Powell and Pressburger’s subversive, audacious take on Offenbach’s opera drew on some of the greatest film, music and dance talents of the period. Transforming it into a phantasmagoria of feverish colours, the sensual and unsettling delights include Tchérina as a 19th-century dominatrix, a chorus of pan-sexual mannequins who appear to have raided Marc Bolan’s dressing-up box, and Shearer’s dismembered but still-blinking head.
Robin Baker
Supported by Simon and Harley Hessel.
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