possible best picture nominee

Rating: Null/10 (26 September 2000)

This is a fantastic movie. I wouldn't be surprised to see it among the Best Picture nominees for this year as a small sentimental favorite, the way The Full Monty made it in a couple years ago. Jamie Bell gives a great performance, and after this movie he'll probably be more popular than Prince William in the UK.
This is a sweet little movie, and you have to give it the benefit of the doubt in its more melodramatic moments, but it's a wonderful portrait of a young artist emerging from family and social turmoil. A great example of the worst thing in the world--a boy doing ballet!--turning out to be not just a good thing, but perhaps the salvation of a family's spirit.
With CROUPIER, GIRL ON A BRIDGE, and now BILLY ELLIOT, I'd have to say it's been a heck of a year for European movies.