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Billy Elliot

When: Friday 2nd August 2024

Hosted by: WMIP Analytic Film Group

We meet regularly online (once every couple of months) and bring analytic thinking to discussions on a range of films. Group members suggest film and at the end of each session we draw the title for our next session. Films are introduced by the proposer who invites the group members into an exploration from a psychological perspective

BILLY ELLIOT PLOT

Billy Elliot, written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry was a smash hit when released in 2000.

Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis and Stuart Wells amongst others.

It tells the tale of the young son of a widowed miner with a talent for dancing and a longing to learn ballet. In a community struggling for survival in during the miners’ strike and a family in a state of disintegration there seems little hope that Billy will chieve his dream. Billy’s longing to dance on the stage rather than in the boxing ring brings soul searching for the young hero and his father who encounters his own crisis of masculinity. As his dance teacher, Mrs Wilkinson tells him, ”If you go out to find life Billy, you lose other things”

Booking is required

Please email laurachaisty19@gmail.com to register your details by Friday 2nd August 2024

Joining instructions will be sent out just after 5pm on the day.

This is a FREE event open to WMIP members only

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