Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from r... (Full plot summary below)
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Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting.
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| The Herald (Ireland)George ByrneHonestly, Boyhood is Richard Linklater's masterpiece and easily the best film of the year so far. Do not miss it. |
| New Zealand HeraldPeter CalderIt is sure to be one of the best films of my year. |
| Parallax ViewSean Axmaker... a different and daring kind of cinematic experience, something rare enough in American popular cinema. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinLiving with Mason and his parents over time you feel an intimacy, an empathy, a shared stake. I’m not saying Boyhood is the greatest film I’ve ever seen, but I’m thinking there’s my life before I saw it and my life now, and it’s different; I know movies can do something that just last week I didn’t. They can make time visible. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyLinklater’s film is very much its own hybrid creature. While the dramatic scaffolding is lightly drawn, it becomes apparent that Linklater has organized his material along certain themes, most notably that of the passage of time and the dream life of childhood. |
| Times (UK)Kate MuirCinema has always been the best place for time travel, but rarely has it been so anchored in reality than in Richard Linklater's Boyhood. |
| TV GuidePerry SeibertIt's a simultaneously modest and massively ambitious undertaking, so original in its conception and so successful in its execution that it deserves to be remembered as a landmark achievement. |
| Film Comment MagazineHolly WillisLinklater bridges the gap between these more art-oriented projects and contemporary narrative cinema. He offers us a new sense of knowing time by inviting us to be present as it unfurls. |
| Christianity TodayAlissa WilkinsonOne of the loveliest things about Boyhood is how much of it makes those long-forgotten strings of childhood vibrate within you. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid. |
| Columbus AliveBrad KeefeThe ambition at play here even makes Linklater's fantastic "Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight" series pale in comparison. |
