heartwarming and charming

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2005)

It's absolutely undeniable that Jamie Bell has greatly acted and delivered a very charismatic performance, evoking laughters and tears at the same time; Billy Elliot works his way up to success after giving through the hardest times and situations a child could live in. Compared to other pictures shot in the Eighties and showing English plights of those years, this melodrama is better conceived and more engrossing for the way it tells of family life and dreams coming true. With everything considered it's genuinely intense and soulful, narrating emotions, changes and above all a story of struggle: struggle with losses of life, with biases, with public authorities and with sexuality.