Boyhood (2014)
Written and directed
by Richard Linklater this film stars Ellar Coltraine, Patricia
Arquette, Lorelei Linklater and Ethan Hawke. We follow a boy and his
family from the age of 6 to 18 as he grows up in Texas with divorced
parents.
Beyond anything else
this is a unique effort in film making that you have to applaud the
commitment of cast and crew to come back year after year over 12
years. Seeing characters really age before you is something that I do
not think has ever been achieved with such realism anywhere else.
The plot is as much a
tale of growing up as it is a coming of age story and does a really
good job of capturing some of those universal moments of childhood. I
am a big fan of Linklater and while this is not my favourite of his
films it is still really enjoyable. My only complaint is that this
might have worked much better as a longer series on television as
occasionally the age jumps are fairly big and it's so hard to get 12
years of footage into just under 3 hours.
5/5
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