Billy eliot

title : Billy Eliot
Directed by:Stephen Daldry
Country: UK
Year : 2000
Gender : drama
Running time: 111m

Billy Eliot is a British film based on a novel written by AJ Cronin, The Stars Look Down..
Billy Elliot lives with his family in the North of England. He's eleven-year-old and had recently lost his mother. His father and older brother, only have on the head end the mining strike of 1984. But Billy's life takes a change when in the gym where he learns boxing saw some girls of her same age that are learning ballet. Decides to change his boxing gloves for ones ballet shoes.With the help of Ms. Wilkinson will be introduced in that world, faced opposition from her family.Anyway finally Billy triumphs, and become a big ballet dancer.

It is clear that the main theme of the film is the dance,
but there are also values which are of secondary importance.
One of these values is the mentality of the era,
as it's not seen a guy who dancing ballet.


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