why is the color so strange?
is it because it's three strip? I know about the topic but I still can't find the reason why it looks this way, whereas the one strip color doesn't.
shareI assume this was the look Michael Powell wanted. It's a story about a ballet about a fairy tale that becomes the fate of the dancer. Hightened colour for a hightened reality?
shareIt's an amazing looking movie. The colors are indeed heightened--richer than real life, one might say "more real than real"--but as you say it's undoubtedly the look they were going for.
I did what was essentially a double-feature of Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes and it's quite obvious that Powell and Pressburger were visual geniuses who were in total control of every element of their films.