"Why do you want to dance?"
"Why do you want to live?"
A young amateur ballerina called Victoria Page (Moira Shearer)
meets famed ballet producer Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) at a ballet after
party, impressing him enough to invite her to join his company. At breakfast
the next morning Lermontov also meets an inspiring young composer by the name
of Julian Craster (Marius Goring) and he too is invited to join the company.
The two talented youngsters begin to work their way up through the company
ranks as a romance blossoms between them. There are tough decisions to be made
however when it comes to a choice between ambition and love.
I bought The Red Shoes
of Blu-Ray about three or four years ago after hearing Martin Scorsese say it
was one of his favourite films. Now I’ve finally seen it I can see why someone
would enjoy it on an artistic and technical level but it left me feeling very
bored.
