{"id":26915,"date":"2025-07-13T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T13:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/?post_type=movie&#038;p=26915"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:57:36","slug":"billy-elliot","status":"publish","type":"movie","link":"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/en\/movie\/billy-elliot\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Elliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"moviemeta\"><li class=\"meta\">Stephen Daldry<\/li><li class=\"meta\">2000<\/li><li class=\"meta\">USA<\/li><li class=\"meta\">110&#039;<\/li><li class=\"meta\">This film will be screened exclusively in the Pluktent, not in the open air<\/li><li class=\"meta\">Spoken in English, with Dutch subtitles<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">An eleven-year-old boy who dreams of ballet in a world where men box and strike: Billy Elliot has hung up his boxing gloves and chooses pirouettes over uppercuts. But how do you tell that to a father scared his son might not fit the mould of a \u2018proper man\u2019? <strong>Please note: this screening is sold out!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-create-block-the-catcher-slider\"><figure class=\"tccSlides\"><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Pluk-de-Nacht-2023-79949-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_n8QmEm-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_AbGCq1-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_CrbP21-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_QC6hSM-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_HT20e6-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_THGqsA-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_mZcXQa-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_1v5bS4-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/billy-elliot_1IbjqH-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/div><div class=\"tccSlide\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"tccSlideImg\" src=\"https:\/\/plukdenacht.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/circustent-2-engels.svg\"\/><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"slick-arrow-tcc slick-prev-tcc\"><span class=\"buttonMiddle\"><\/span><\/div><div class=\"slick-arrow-tcc slick-next-tcc\"><span class=\"buttonMiddle\"><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-create-block-the-catcher-spacer\"><div class=\"desktopSpace\" style=\"height:60px\"><\/div><div class=\"mobileSpace\" style=\"height:30px\"><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Billy Elliot lives with his father, brother and grandmother with dementia in a small working-class house in Northern England. It&#8217;s 1984, in the middle of the infamous miners&#8217; strikes. After his mother&#8217;s death, the house is filled with an atmosphere where emotions are suppressed and anything different is viewed with suspicion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billy&#8217;s father forces him to attend boxing lessons, but he has no talent for it. He discovers he much prefers dancing at the ballet class taught by chain-smoking teacher Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Walters). &#8220;Lads do football, boxing or wrestling, no freaking ballet!&#8221; his father shouts angrily. &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with ballet?&#8221; Billy asks innocently. &#8220;It just \u00ecs!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director Stephen Daldry tells the story without embellishment. No moment is heightened for extra drama or humor. He shows rather than tells, which gives the story its power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Fourteen-year-old Jamie Bell plays Billy brilliantly. 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