"For me, [The Red Shoes] is the ultimate subversive commercial movie. It's the epitome of everything that I admire about Powell and Pressburger. It is utterly satisfactory as popular entertainment but also wildly inventive, profound, complex, and not at all comforting. It's a film that has been gloriously vindicated by history." - Martin Scorsese

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.