The Red Shoes

Saw The Red Shoes. It was a film about making an opera. (A lot of behind-the-scenes films seem to be high on critics' lists.) It was also full the of the spectacle of an opera, even at one point become an orgiastic fantasia, an awesome collage of images and sound. It is also full of the histrionics of opera. Some of the characters are ludicrous. The plot of the opera-within-the-film relates heavily to the plot of the film itself (of course) and deals with a woman destroyed by having her desires ironically fulfilled more fully than she'd intended. This leads the aforementioned hysteria, with grotesque gesticulations and gaping rictuses. Needless to say, I loved it. Quite a good movie, though also quite silly at parts.