A beautiful original movie

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2001)

"Billy Elliot" is original, sensible, funny and refreshing. The story is simple and real, you don't find the typical hollywoodian sentimental charges that sometimes spoil all the fun. It's like taking a sip of real life: the sadness is there, all the time, not underlined or exploited, the joys are subtle and success means loosing something.
Billy is great , acting or dancing; another character that really impressed me is his father, the prototype of the simple good-hearted man.
On the whole, the movie is beautiful, refreshing, different, it has something special, I would call it: the European touch.