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Afraid of Billy be­ tricks are completely astounding, uti- Cohen falls into it. A dizzying odyssey the stmggles to fiilfrll that dream prob­ lizing the plot’s disturbing nature to flow coming a “puff’, they put a stop to the of high-contrast black and white, it is ably wouldn’t be catchy, but make the well with the ambient soundtrack. It is ballet classes. Billy stmggles on, how­ the story of a brilliant mathematician girl a boy, and the story comes to life. ever, and his family soon real­ (Sean Gullette) driven by his convic­ a journey into the surreal confines of Billy Elliott, a British film, plays around izes that he deserves the chance tion that higher mathematics can be the mind, one that earned Aronofsky with that idea. to follow his dreams. used to unlock the stmcture ofthe natu­ the 1998 Sundance Festival’s Direct­ Billy Elliott is aboy ofeleven This film is absolutely delight- ral world. While pushing the limits of ing Award for Dramatic Competition. that lives in Durham, England in fiil. Jamie Bell performs won­ his method. Max stumbles across a With production costs reach­ 1984. He resides with his derfully as Billy, including the series ofnumbers that might decode the ing a mere $70,000 dollars, perhaps grandmother, who seems dancing. Gary Lewis mas- patterns of the stock market, and in­ the makers of the Blair Witch Project terestingly enough, secrets within an­ to suffer from terfiilly portrays Billy’s fa­ should have studied this one to learn cient Hebrew holy texts. Alzheimer’s, his fa-cX i ther, tom between the coal how to make z great indie film on a Independent critics say that this shoestring budget. ther, and brother, miner’s strike and his de­ is perhaps the most “cerebral” film in It has been called a work of both of whom work as coal sire to provide for Billy. the last 10 years. Complex in nature genius, and the attentive viewer no miners. 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