FILM REVIEW: Boyhood
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane,
Lorelei Linklater
By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
We’re introduced to Mason (Coltrane) at the age of six, living in
Texas with his mother Olivia
(Arquette) and sister Samantha (Linklater, director Richard’s
daughter). Over the course of the
film we follow his development
for a period of 12 years.
A couple of years ago, British
film-maker Michael Winterbottom presented us with Everyday,
a family drama spanning a timeframe of several years. WinterbotNew Jersey Stage
tom had gathered his cast and
crew for a few weeks each year
over a five year period, allowing
us to witness the real-time physical development of his cast (unremarkable with the adults, but
strikingly so with the child actors),
a cinematic version of Harvey Keitel’s photo a day experiment in
Smoke. At the same time as Winterbottom was conducting his experiment, across the water, Richard Linklater was doing exactly
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