When viewing the Criterion Collections' remastered version of this movie, you feel as though you're watching a movie made in the modern day trying to replicate a bygone time. It has an eerie feeling, very nightmarish, but the kind of enjoyable nightmare that you don't want to wake up from. The way the characters face the world that they're in feels authentic to reality, while at the same time, making you comfortably nervous. The story, after consuming it in its entirety, humbles you to realize your dreams and wishes and hopes are not reality. Powell and Pressburger are waaaay ahead of their time and this movie is the prime example. Crushingly enlightening.
Review of The Red Shoes
