"The Red Shoes" on Screen

Here's Maureen Dowd on the stunning film version of Andersen's "The Red Shoes." Pressburger and Powell's brilliant film brings Andersen's story into the twentieth century, with a doomed heroine torn between love and ballet. Here's Dowd on the Andersen story:

"The Red Shoes" is based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name about a little girl who becomes vain about her red shoes and gets confused about her priorities. As in the movie, the shoes force the girl to dance day...