Actors: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke
Director: Richard Linklater
Boyhood is a splendid film - it's hard not to give it points for the difficulty of its construction. Requiring over a decade to tell its story in stages, it very easily could've turned out to be an unsalvagable, self-indulgent mess. Instead, it grabs at all sorts of slices of one's childhood - it makes one's heart ache to remember being that young. Regardless, the film doesn't just seize at your memories in an attempt to bring them to your brain and make you feel stuff - it succeeds in being emotionally captivating in its own right.
Chuck Klosterman said that cinema verite is his least favorite style because any attempt to make the film look 'real' only highlights its artificiality. While Boyhood is not shot cinema verite, the film is attempting a kind of realism that can sound and look awfully tin-eared during its few missteps.
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