The Red Shoes (1948)

I've heard this movie compared a lot to Black Swan (my favorite film of 2010), so I put it on my "to watch" list. It's your typical story of a girl who's torn between love and her passion for dancing. There's a nice lengthy scene where she performs the ballet of the Red Shoes (based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a pair of dancing shoes that kills its owner) and you experience it from her point of view, which was kind of surreal and cool. While it doesn't quite traverse the dark places that Black Swan went, it goes the distance, so it doesn't disappoint either.

Not to be confused with the K-Horror movie "The Red Shoes" (2005) or the trashy softporn series "The Red Shoe Diaries."

3.5 graceful pirouettes out of 5