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Ballerina (film review) *contains spoilers*

Film: Ballerina Year: 2016 Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy Directed By: Eric Summer, Eric Warin Starring: Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Carly Rae Jepsen About:  An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house. Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmK7X0swHrE My Review: Having saw this on my recommended for me list on Netflix I thought I would give it a watch and see if this movie was any good. As someone who loves dance movies and animation I was hoping for this to be better than it was and it did let me down a little bit as a result. I did like that Ballerina showed how both children were best friends and didn't give up on their dreams and wanted to achieve them together by running away to Paris. By showing the lengths both of the children will go to in order to make their dreams come true was also nice to see with the boy d...