Red Shoes, The (1948)

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The gorgeous ballet set-pieces are worth the price of admission in their own right, but the larger film never reaches the intensity of its microcosmic play-within-a-play. It's perfectly crafted, but ultimately unconvincing -- more like theatrical histrionics than tragic ineluctability.

- Sam - 2007-06-26 08:56:31