Billy Elliot — -2000-

Twenty-five years later, Billy Elliot remains a masterpiece of empathy. It understands that revolution is not always a picket line. Sometimes, it is a 12-year-old boy turning a pirouette in a shabby church hall, refusing to let the darkness have the final word.

And yet, the film dances.

“I don’t want a childhood. I want to be a ballet dancer.” billy elliot -2000-

Directed by Stephen Daldry in his feature debut, Billy Elliot is not, at its core, a film about dancing. It is a film about the quiet, explosive act of becoming yourself when the world expects you to be a picket line, a fist, a pound of coal. Twenty-five years later, Billy Elliot remains a masterpiece